1# How to Contribute 2 3We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are 4just a few small guidelines you need to follow. 5 6## Contributor License Agreement 7 8Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License 9Agreement. You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution; 10this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as 11part of the project. Head over to <https://cla.developers.google.com/> to see 12your current agreements on file or to sign a new one. 13 14You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one 15(even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it 16again. 17 18## Code reviews 19 20All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We 21use a [Gerrit](https://www.gerritcodereview.com) instance hosted at 22https://chromium-review.googlesource.com for this purpose. See the 23[WebM Project page](https://www.webmproject.org/code/contribute/submitting-patches/) 24for additional details. 25 26## Code Style 27 28The C++ code style is based on the 29[Google C++ Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html) and 30`clang-format --style=Google`. `clang-format -i --style=file` can be used to 31format individual files, it will use the settings from `.clang-format`. 32 33CMake files are formatted with 34[cmake-format](https://cmake-format.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). `cmake-format 35-i` can be used to format individual files, it will use the settings from 36`.cmake-format.py`. 37 38## Community Guidelines 39 40This project follows 41[Google's Open Source Community Guidelines](https://opensource.google.com/conduct/). 42