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+# 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](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual).
+*   If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work,
+    then you'll need to sign a
+    [corporate CLA](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate).
+
+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.
+
+## Are you a Googler?
+
+If you are a Googler, please make an attempt to submit an internal change rather
+than a GitHub Pull Request. If you are not able to submit an internal change a
+PR is acceptable as an alternative.
+
+## Contributing A Patch
+
+1.  Submit an issue describing your proposed change to the
+    [issue tracker](https://github.com/google/googletest/issues).
+2.  Please don't mix more than one logical change per submittal, because it
+    makes the history hard to follow. If you want to make a change that doesn't
+    have a corresponding issue in the issue tracker, please create one.
+3.  Also, coordinate with team members that are listed on the issue in question.
+    This ensures that work isn't being duplicated and communicating your plan
+    early also generally leads to better patches.
+4.  If your proposed change is accepted, and you haven't already done so, sign a
+    Contributor License Agreement (see details above).
+5.  Fork the desired repo, develop and test your code changes.
+6.  Ensure that your code adheres to the existing style in the sample to which
+    you are contributing.
+7.  Ensure that your code has an appropriate set of unit tests which all pass.
+8.  Submit a pull request.
+
+## The Google Test and Google Mock Communities
+
+The Google Test community exists primarily through the
+[discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/googletestframework) and the
+GitHub repository. Likewise, the Google Mock community exists primarily through
+their own [discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/googlemock). You are
+definitely encouraged to contribute to the discussion and you can also help us
+to keep the effectiveness of the group high by following and promoting the
+guidelines listed here.
+
+### Please Be Friendly
+
+Showing courtesy and respect to others is a vital part of the Google culture,
+and we strongly encourage everyone participating in Google Test development to
+join us in accepting nothing less. Of course, being courteous is not the same as
+failing to constructively disagree with each other, but it does mean that we
+should be respectful of each other when enumerating the 42 technical reasons
+that a particular proposal may not be the best choice. There's never a reason to
+be antagonistic or dismissive toward anyone who is sincerely trying to
+contribute to a discussion.
+
+Sure, C++ testing is serious business and all that, but it's also a lot of fun.
+Let's keep it that way. Let's strive to be one of the friendliest communities in
+all of open source.
+
+As always, discuss Google Test in the official GoogleTest discussion group. You
+don't have to actually submit code in order to sign up. Your participation
+itself is a valuable contribution.
+
+## Style
+
+To keep the source consistent, readable, diffable and easy to merge, we use a
+fairly rigid coding style, as defined by the
+[google-styleguide](https://github.com/google/styleguide) project. All patches
+will be expected to conform to the style outlined
+[here](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html). Use
+[.clang-format](https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/.clang-format)
+to check your formatting.
+
+## Requirements for Contributors
+
+If you plan to contribute a patch, you need to build Google Test, Google Mock,
+and their own tests from a git checkout, which has further requirements:
+
+*   [Python](https://www.python.org/) v2.3 or newer (for running some of the
+    tests and re-generating certain source files from templates)
+*   [CMake](https://cmake.org/) v2.8.12 or newer
+
+## Developing Google Test and Google Mock
+
+This section discusses how to make your own changes to the Google Test project.
+
+### Testing Google Test and Google Mock Themselves
+
+To make sure your changes work as intended and don't break existing
+functionality, you'll want to compile and run Google Test and GoogleMock's own
+tests. For that you can use CMake:
+
+    mkdir mybuild
+    cd mybuild
+    cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON -Dgmock_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_REPO_DIR}
+
+To choose between building only Google Test or Google Mock, you may modify your
+cmake command to be one of each
+
+    cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_DIR} # sets up Google Test tests
+    cmake -Dgmock_build_tests=ON ${GMOCK_DIR} # sets up Google Mock tests
+
+Make sure you have Python installed, as some of Google Test's tests are written
+in Python. If the cmake command complains about not being able to find Python
+(`Could NOT find PythonInterp (missing: PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)`), try telling it
+explicitly where your Python executable can be found:
+
+    cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=path/to/python ...
+
+Next, you can build Google Test and / or Google Mock and all desired tests. On
+\*nix, this is usually done by
+
+    make
+
+To run the tests, do
+
+    make test
+
+All tests should pass.
+
+### Regenerating Source Files
+
+Some of Google Test's source files are generated from templates (not in the C++
+sense) using a script. For example, the file
+*googlemock/include/gmock/gmock-generated-actions.h.pump* is used to generate
+*gmock-generated-actions.h* in the same directory.
+
+You don't need to worry about regenerating the source files unless you need to
+modify them. You would then modify the corresponding `.pump` files and run the
+'[pump.py](googlemock/scripts/pump.py)' generator script. See the
+[Pump Manual](googlemock/docs/pump_manual.md).