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| 1 # How to contribute # |
| 2 |
| 3 We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are |
| 4 a just a few small guidelines you need to follow. |
| 5 |
| 6 |
| 7 ## Contributor License Agreement ## |
| 8 |
| 9 Contributions to any Google project must be accompanied by a Contributor |
| 10 License Agreement. This is not a copyright **assignment**, it simply gives |
| 11 Google permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the |
| 12 project. |
| 13 |
| 14 * If you are an individual writing original source code and you're sure you |
| 15 own the intellectual property, then you'll need to sign an [individual |
| 16 CLA][]. |
| 17 |
| 18 * If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work, |
| 19 then you'll need to sign a [corporate CLA][]. |
| 20 |
| 21 You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted |
| 22 one (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it |
| 23 again. |
| 24 |
| 25 [individual CLA]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual |
| 26 [corporate CLA]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate |
| 27 |
| 28 Once your CLA is submitted (or if you already submitted one for |
| 29 another Google project), make a commit adding yourself to the |
| 30 [AUTHORS][] and [CONTRIBUTORS][] files. This commit can be part |
| 31 of your first [pull request][]. |
| 32 |
| 33 [AUTHORS]: AUTHORS |
| 34 [CONTRIBUTORS]: CONTRIBUTORS |
| 35 |
| 36 |
| 37 ## Submitting a patch ## |
| 38 |
| 39 1. It's generally best to start by opening a new issue describing the bug or |
| 40 feature you're intending to fix. Even if you think it's relatively minor, |
| 41 it's helpful to know what people are working on. Mention in the initial |
| 42 issue that you are planning to work on that bug or feature so that it can |
| 43 be assigned to you. |
| 44 |
| 45 1. Follow the normal process of [forking][] the project, and setup a new |
| 46 branch to work in. It's important that each group of changes be done in |
| 47 separate branches in order to ensure that a pull request only includes the |
| 48 commits related to that bug or feature. |
| 49 |
| 50 1. Do your best to have [well-formed commit messages][] for each change. |
| 51 This provides consistency throughout the project, and ensures that commit |
| 52 messages are able to be formatted properly by various git tools. |
| 53 |
| 54 1. Finally, push the commits to your fork and submit a [pull request][]. |
| 55 |
| 56 [forking]: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo |
| 57 [well-formed commit messages]: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-c
ommit-messages.html |
| 58 [pull request]: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request |
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