3 Want to contribute to Polymer? Great!
5 We are more than happy to accept external contributions to the project in the form of [feedback](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/polymer-dev), [bug reports](../../issues), and pull requests.
7 ## Contributor License Agreement
9 Before we can accept patches, there's a quick web form you need to fill out.
11 - If you're contributing as an individual (e.g. you own the intellectual property), fill out [this form](http://code.google.com/legal/individual-cla-v1.0.html).
12 - If you're contributing under a company, fill out [this form](http://code.google.com/legal/corporate-cla-v1.0.html) instead.
14 This CLA asserts that contributions are owned by you and that we can license all work under our [license](LICENSE).
16 Other projects require a similar agreement: jQuery, Firefox, Apache, Node, and many more.
18 [More about CLAs](https://www.google.com/search?q=Contributor%20License%20Agreement)
22 Here's an easy guide that should get you up and running:
24 1. Setup Grunt: `sudo npm install -g grunt-cli`
25 1. Fork the project on github and pull down your copy.
26 > replace the {{ username }} with your username and {{ repository }} with the repository name
28 git clone git@github.com:{{ username }}/{{ repository }}.git --recursive
30 Note the `--recursive`. This is necessary for submodules to initialize properly. If you don't do a recursive clone, you'll have to init them manually:
35 Download and run the `pull-all.sh` script to install the sibling dependencies.
37 git clone git://github.com/Polymer/tools.git && tools/bin/pull-all.sh
40 > in the repo you've made changes to, run the tests:
46 1. Commit your code and make a pull request.
48 That's it for the one time setup. Now you're ready to make a change.
50 ## Submitting a pull request
52 We iterate fast! To avoid potential merge conflicts, it's a good idea to pull from the main project before making a change and submitting a pull request. The easiest way to do this is setup a remote called `upstream` and do a pull before working on a change:
54 git remote add upstream git://github.com/Polymer/{{ repository }}.git
56 Then before making a change, do a pull from the upstream `master` branch:
58 git pull upstream master
60 To make life easier, add a "pull upstream" alias in your `.gitconfig`:
63 pu = !"git fetch origin -v; git fetch upstream -v; git merge upstream/master"
65 That will pull in changes from your forked repo, the main (upstream) repo, and merge the two. Then it's just a matter of running `git pu` before a change and pushing to your repo:
70 git commit -a -m 'Awesome things.'
73 Lastly, don't forget to submit the pull request.