We're so glad you're thinking about contributing to an 18F open source project! If you're unsure about anything, just ask -- or submit the issue or pull request anyway. The worst that can happen is you'll be politely asked to change something. We love all friendly contributions.
We want to ensure a welcoming environment for all of our projects. Our staff follow the 18F Code of Conduct and all contributors should do the same.
We encourage you to read this project's CONTRIBUTING policy (you are here), its LICENSE, and its README.
If you have any questions or want to read more, check out the 18F Open Source Policy GitHub repository, or just shoot us an email.
During the development process the development fork of the project will be hosted at 18F/culper. This may cause some confusion so we have outlined some basic steps for contributing:
- Go through the development setup
- Fork the code on Github
- Add a git remote with
git remote add fork <path/to/forked/repository> - Make changes and commit them locally
- Push to fork using
git push fork - Create a pull request from the forked repository to the 18F/culper repository
This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.
All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.