| # How to Contribute | |
| We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are a | |
| few guidelines you need to follow. | |
| ## Contributor License Agreement | |
| Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License | |
| Agreement. You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution, | |
| this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as | |
| part of the project. Head over to <https://cla.developers.google.com/> to see | |
| your current agreements on file or to sign a new one. | |
| You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one | |
| (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it | |
| again. | |
| ## Code reviews | |
| All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We | |
| use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult | |
| [GitHub Help](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) for more | |
| information on using pull requests. | |
| ## What to expect from maintainers | |
| Expect maintainers to respond to new issues or pull requests within a week. | |
| For outstanding and ongoing issues and particularly for long-running | |
| pull requests, expect the maintainers to review within a week of a | |
| contributor asking for a new review. There is no commitment to resolution -- | |
| merging or closing a pull request, or fixing or closing an issue -- because some | |
| issues will require more discussion than others. |