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## Contributing |
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We are pleased that you are interested in contributing to our work. |
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### Generated Protocol Buffer Classes |
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The classes in this repository are generated by the protocol buffer |
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compiler, as known as protoc. As such, we can not accept contributions |
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directly to these generated classes. Instead, changes should be |
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suggested upstream in the [API Common Protos][api-common-protos] |
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repository. |
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### Documentation |
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We want for both protocol buffers and the types that we have provided here |
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to be understandable to everyone, including to those who may be unfamiliar |
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with the ecosystem or concepts. |
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That means we want our documentation to be better, and welcome anyone |
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willing to help with this. For documentation in the generated classes, please |
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open a pull request against the [API Common Protos][api-common-protos] |
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repository. |
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Any improvements to READMEs or other non-generated documentation or |
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development scripts in this repository would be greatly appreciated - please |
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open a pull request. |
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## Contributor License Agreement |
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Before we can accept your pull requests, you will need to sign a Contributor |
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License Agreement (CLA): |
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- **If you are an individual writing original source code** and **you own the |
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intellectual property**, then you need to sign an [individual CLA][]. |
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- **If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your |
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work**, then you need to sign a [corporate CLA][]. |
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You can sign these electronically (just scroll to the bottom). After that, |
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we'll be able to accept your pull requests. |
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[individual CLA]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual |
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[corporate CLA]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate |
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[api-common-protos]: https://github.com/googleapis/api-common-protos |
