# How to contribute

We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project.

## Before you begin

### Sign our Contributor License Agreement

Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a
[Contributor License Agreement](https://cla.developers.google.com/about) (CLA).
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.

If you or your current employer have already signed the Google CLA (even if it
was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it again.

Visit <https://cla.developers.google.com/> to see your current agreements or to
sign a new one.

### Review our community guidelines

This project follows
[Google's Open Source Community Guidelines](https://opensource.google/conduct/).

## Contribution process

### 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.

### Contributor Guide

You may follow these steps to contribute:

1. **Fork the official repository.** This will create a copy of the official repository in your own account.
2. **Sync the branches.** This will ensure that your copy of the repository is up-to-date with the latest changes from the official repository.
3. **Work on your forked repository's feature branch.** This is where you will make your changes to the code.
4. **Commit your updates on your forked repository's feature branch.** This will save your changes to your copy of the repository.
5. **Submit a pull request to the official repository's main branch.** This will request that your changes be merged into the official repository.
6. **Resolve any linting errors.** This will ensure that your changes are formatted correctly.

Here are some additional things to keep in mind during the process:

- **Test your changes.** Before you submit a pull request, make sure that your changes work as expected.
- **Be patient.** It may take some time for your pull request to be reviewed and merged.

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## For Google Employees

Complete the following steps to register your GitHub account and be added as a contributor to this repository.

1. Register your GitHub account at [go/GitHub](http://go/github).
