1# Contributing to Go Protocol Buffers 2 3Go protocol buffers is an open source project and accepts contributions. 4 5This project is the first major version of Go protobufs, 6while the next major revision of this project is located at 7[protocolbuffers/protobuf-go](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-go). 8Most new development effort is focused on the latter project, 9and changes to this project is primarily reserved for bug fixes. 10 11 12## Contributor License Agreement 13 14Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License 15Agreement. You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution, 16this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as 17part of the project. Head over to <https://cla.developers.google.com/> to see 18your current agreements on file or to sign a new one. 19 20You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one 21(even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it 22again. 23 24 25## Code reviews 26 27All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We 28use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult 29[GitHub Help](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) for more 30information on using pull requests. 31