Robert Swiecki | 9068ae6 | 2015-08-20 15:03:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end). |
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| 3 | ### Before you contribute |
| 4 | Before we can use your code, you must sign the |
| 5 | [Google Individual Contributor License Agreement](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual?csw=1) |
| 6 | (CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the |
| 7 | copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our |
| 8 | codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also |
| 9 | need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you |
| 10 | know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign |
| 11 | the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has |
| 12 | approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase. |
| 13 | Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch with |
| 14 | us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and |
| 15 | possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid |
| 16 | frustration later on. |
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| 18 | ### Code reviews |
| 19 | All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We |
| 20 | use Github pull requests for this purpose. |
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| 22 | ### The small print |
| 23 | Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than |
| 24 | the one above, the Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement. |