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-We require a conversation to take place in the appropriate Slack channel before raising a new Github Issue. Please note that **issues will be closed immediately if prior discussion did not take place**. We need to do this to help manage the quality and validity of Issues raised on this project.
+We require a conversation to take place in the appropriate [SDKMAN Slack](https://slack.sdkman.io) channel before raising a new Github Issue. Please note that **issues will be closed immediately if prior discussion did not take place**. We need to do this to help manage the quality and validity of Issues raised on this project.
 
 Please tick one:
 - [ ] this is a new Feature Request, a conversation was started in the [Slack CLI Development Channel](https://sdkman.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=user-issues).