| Vitaly Buka | d088a34 | 2016-10-19 11:04:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end). |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ### Before you contribute |
| 4 | Before we can use your code, you must sign the |
| 5 | [Google Individual Contributor License Agreement] |
| 6 | (https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual) |
| 7 | (CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the |
| 8 | copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our |
| 9 | codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also |
| 10 | need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you |
| 11 | know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign |
| 12 | the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has |
| 13 | approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase. |
| 14 | Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch with |
| 15 | us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and |
| 16 | possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid |
| 17 | frustration later on. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | ### Code reviews |
| 20 | All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We |
| 21 | use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ### The small print |
| 24 | Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than |
| 25 | the one above, the |
| 26 | [Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement] |
| 27 | (https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-corporate). |