We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are just a few small guidelines you need to follow.
Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License Agreement (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. Head over to https://cla.developers.google.com/ to see your current agreements on file or to sign a new one.
You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it again.
All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests.
This project follows Google's Open Source Community Guidelines.
Thank you for your interest in contributing. OpenCoven is MIT licensed and community-driven. We want contributing to be easy, open, and safe for everyone.
OpenCoven uses the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) v1.1 for all contributions. This is a lightweight mechanism — not a CLA — that asks you to certify that you have the right to submit what you're submitting.
By making a contribution to this project, you certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by you and you have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of your knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and you have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by you, under the same open source license (unless you are permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to you by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and you have not modified it.
(d) You understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information you submit with it, including your sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved.
Add a Signed-off-by line to your commit message:
git commit -s -m "Your commit message"
This produces:
Your commit message
Signed-off-by: Your Name <your.email@example.com>
By contributing, you additionally agree not to assert any patent claims — now held or later acquired — against this project or its users that arise from your contribution. See PATENTS for the full non-assertion pledge.
- Bug fixes and reliability improvements
- Documentation and example improvements
- New skills, tools, and integrations
- Performance improvements
- Community-requested features
OpenCoven is not a contribution vehicle for proprietary forks. If you are building a closed-source derivative of OpenCoven's architecture, please do not use contribution as a means to learn implementation details that are not yet public. We welcome genuine collaborators.
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch:
git checkout -b feature/your-feature - Make your changes with signed-off commits:
git commit -s - Open a pull request with a clear description
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