# How to become a contributor and submit your own code

## Contributor License Agreements

We'd love to accept your patches! Before we can take them, we
have to jump a couple of legal hurdles.

Please fill out either the individual or corporate Contributor License Agreement
(CLA).

  * If you are an individual writing original source code and you're sure you
    own the intellectual property, then you'll need to sign an
    [individual CLA](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual).
  * If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work,
    then you'll need to sign a
    [corporate CLA](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate).

Follow either of the two links above to access the appropriate CLA and
instructions for how to sign and return it. Once we receive it, we'll be able to
accept your pull requests.

## Contributing A Patch

1. Submit an issue describing your proposed change to the
   [issue tracker](https://github.com/google/googletest).
1. Please don't mix more than one logical change per submittal,
   because it makes the history hard to follow. If you want to make a
   change that doesn't have a corresponding issue in the issue
   tracker, please create one.
1. Also, coordinate with team members that are listed on the issue in
   question. This ensures that work isn't being duplicated and
   communicating your plan early also generally leads to better
   patches.
1. If your proposed change is accepted, and you haven't already done so, sign a
   Contributor License Agreement (see details above).
1. Fork the desired repo, develop and test your code changes.
1. Ensure that your code adheres to the existing style in the sample to which
   you are contributing.
1. Ensure that your code has an appropriate set of unit tests which all pass.
1. Submit a pull request.

If you are a Googler, it is preferable to first create an internal change and
have it reviewed and submitted, and then create an upstreaming pull
request here. 

## The Google Test and Google Mock Communities ##

The Google Test community exists primarily through the
[discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/googletestframework)
and the GitHub repository.
Likewise, the Google Mock community exists primarily through their own
[discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/googlemock).
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