1Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end). 2 3### Before you contribute 4**Before we can use your code, you must sign the 5[Google Individual Contributor License Agreement](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual?csw=1) 6(CLA)**, which you can do online. 7 8The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the copyright to your changes, 9even after your contribution becomes part of our codebase, so we need your 10permission to use and distribute your code. We also need to be sure of 11various other things — for instance that you'll tell us if you know that 12your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign 13the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has 14approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase. 15 16Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch 17with us first. Use the issue tracker to explain your idea so we can help and 18possibly guide you. 19 20### Code reviews and other contributions. 21**All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review.** 22Please follow the instructions in [the contributors documentation](http://bazel.io/contributing.html). 23 24### The small print 25Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than 26the one above, the 27[Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement](https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-corporate). 28