Contributor License Agreements

We’d love to accept your code patches! However, 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.

  • 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.
  • If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work to oauth2client, then you’ll need to sign a corporate CLA.

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 add you to the official list of contributors and be able to accept your patches.

Before writing code, file an issue

Use the issue tracker to start the discussion. It is possible that someone else is already working on your idea, your approach is not quite right, or that the functionality exists already. The ticket you file in the issue tracker will be used to hash that all out.

Fork oauth2client

We will use github’s mechanism for forking repositories and making pull requests. Fork the repository, and make your changes in the forked repository.

Include tests

Be sure to add the relevant tests before making the pull request. Docs will be updated automatically when we merge to master, but you should also build the docs yourself via tox -e docs and make sure they’re readable.

Make the pull request

Once you have made all your changes, tests, and updated the documentation, make a pull request to move everything back into the main oauth2client repository. Be sure to reference the original issue in the pull request. Expect some back-and-forth with regards to style and compliance of these rules.