1# How to Contribute 2 3We welcome community contributions to the SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder. Thank you for your time! By contributing to the project, you agree to the license, patent and copyright terms in the AOM License and Patent License and to the release of your contribution under these terms. See [LICENSE](LICENSE.md) and [PATENTS](PATENTS.md) for details. 4 5## Contributor agreement 6 7You will be required to execute the appropriate [contributor agreement](http://aomedia.org/license/) to ensure that the AOMedia Project has the right to distribute your changes. 8 9## Contribution process 10 11- Follow the [coding guidelines](STYLE.md) 12- Validate that your changes do not break a build 13 - either locally or through travis-ci and github actions. Preferably all of them. 14- Perform smoke tests and ensure they pass 15- Submit a pull request for review to the maintainer 16 17## Pull request process 18 19- Authors should use a valid email account when committing. 20- Make clear and concise commits (1 commit per 1 feature or issue) 21- Authors are responsible for breaking down the PR into sensible commits (with proper commit messages) 22- Avoid using force push when addressing comments and review items. 23- Maintainers shall use 'rebase and merge' to make sure all commits can apply cleanly onto the master branch 24- Maintainers shall only use 'squash and merge' with the permission of the authors. 25