# Guidelines for contributing to this project

Any constructive contributions – bug reports, pull requests (code or documentation), suggestions for improvements, and more – are welcome.

## Discussions

Discussion is welcome either on the [combine-discuss Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/combine-discuss) or by creating a new issue in the [GitHub tracker for this repository](https://github.com/combine-org/Community-guidelines/issues).

## Conduct

Everyone is asked to read and respect the [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) before participating directly in this project.

## How to contribute text, edits, and other materials

### Using GitHub (doesn't require knowing Git)

1. Fork the codebase, for example to https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-ACCOUNT/Community-guidelines (click the **Fork** button in the upright corner of the page)
1. Click the link for one of the files
1. Click the **Edit** button, then make some edits
1. Add a commit summary and (optionally) an extended description
1. Click the **Commit Changes** button
1. Create a pull request by clicking the **Pull Request** button at the top of the main page of your copy of the repository

### Using Git

1. Fork the codebase, for example to https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-ACCOUNT/Community-guidelines
1. Clone your fork locally (`git clone
git@github.com:YOUR-GITHUB-ACCOUNT/Community-guidelines.git my-community-guidelines`)
1. Create a branch to hold your changes (`git checkout -b my-changes`)
1. Commit the changes you've made (`git commit -am "Some descriptive text around what you've added"`)
1. Push your branch to GitHub (`git push origin my-changes`)
1. Create a pull request, for example at https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-ACCOUNT/Community-guidelines/pull/new/master

## License

[![CC0](http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/80x15.png) Licensed under CC0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

## Acknowledgments

Portions of this file were originally borrowed from the [code4lib anti-harassment policy repository](https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct) on GitHub.  Their content is licensed under CC0.  Subsequent modifications were made by COMBINE members as indicated in the GitHub commit history.