1 # How to contribute 2 3 We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are 4 just a few small guidelines you need to follow. 5 6 ## Contributor License Agreement 7 8 Contributions to any Google project must be accompanied by a Contributor License 9 Agreement. This is necessary because you own the copyright to your changes, even 10 after your contribution becomes part of this project. So this agreement simply 11 gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the 12 project. Head over to <https://cla.developers.google.com/> to see your current 13 agreements on file or to sign a new one. 14 15 You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one 16 (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it 17 again. 18 19 ## Code reviews 20 21 All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We 22 use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult [GitHub Help] for more 23 information on using pull requests. 24 25 [GitHub Help]: https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/ 26 27 ## Preparing a pull request for review 28 29 Ensure your change is properly formatted by running: 30 31 ```console 32 $ ./gradlew googleJavaFormat 33 ``` 34 35 Then verify that your change builds and passes tests with: 36 37 ```console 38 $ ./gradlew --continue verifyGoogleJavaFormat build connectedCheck 39 ``` 40 41 Please correct any failures before requesting a review. 42
