# How to Contribute

We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are
just a few small 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.

**Some Minigo-specific Expectations**:

*   We format all our python code with
    [autopep8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopep8). If you use Vim, check
    out [Vim-CodeFmt](https://github.com/google/vim-codefmt).
*   We use [pylint](https://www.pylint.org/) to check the syntax of our code.
    Not all of our code yet passes pylint, but we're working on it!
