# 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
Paralight is still an early stage project, with many design changes as new
features are added. Therefore it is highly recommended to file a
[GitHub issue](https://github.com/gendx/paralight/issues) for discussion before
submitting a pull request, unless you're making a trivial change or bug fix.
### 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.