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 * is it in a subrepo? Set the milestone to "Unreleased". Unless it's a subrepo that goes into a release, like godoc or http2.
 * if it is a regression and you can reproduce it, use git bisect to find the bad commit (optional but very helpful).
 
+See https://golang.org/wiki/HandlingIssues for how we use Github's issue metadata.
+
 ### WaitingForInfo
 
 Find bugs that are in state WaitingForInfo (https://github.com/golang/go/labels/WaitingForInfo) and ping them, remove the label when replies arrive, or close the bugs if a reply never arrived.