# Contributing guidelines

## 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](http://code.google.com/legal/individual-cla-v1.0.html).
  * If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work, then you'll need to sign a [corporate CLA](http://code.google.com/legal/corporate-cla-v1.0.html).

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.

***NOTE***: Only original source code from you and other people that have signed the CLA can be accepted into the main repository.

## Contributing code

We currently use Gerrit to host and handle code changes to TensorFlow.  The main
site is
[https://tensorflow-review.googlesource.com/](https://tensorflow-review.googlesource.com/).
See Gerrit [docs](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/) for
information on how Gerrit's code review system works.

We are currently working on improving our external acceptance process, so
please be patient with us as we work out the details.

