# Contributions Welcome! The maintainers of this Copyleft Guide project encourage contribution from the community. Part of the impetus for this project was to create a community around a "copyleft codebase" for information about copyleft. In other words, this project is a tutorial project about Copyleft that is like a Free Software project. ## Who Is In Charge? Currently, [Bradley M. Kuhn](http://ebb.org/bkuhn/) is the editor-in-chief of this Guide project. However, many other contributors have given patches and improvements to the text. Review the [commit log in the Git repository](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/commits/master) for more details on who has contributed to the project. ## How Do I Get Involved? The Guide is maintained in a copylefted distributed version control system called [Git](http://git-scm.com/). Currently, the project utilizes the services of a Git hosting website called [Gitorious](https://gitorious.org). (The software which runs Gitorious is, itself, copylefted, too.) Those who are comfortable with Gitorious can submit [merge requests on copyleft.org's gitorious site](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/merge_requests). See the section "Merge Request and Patch Workflow" below for more information on the details of doing that. However, lack of Git and/or LaTeX knowledge is *not a barrier* for contribution to this project. Useful contributions will be accepted by the following means as well: * Patches posted to [the mailing list](http://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss). * New sections of text or simply ideas and input emailed to [the mailing list](http://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss). * Ideas and suggestions mentioned on the [irc channel #copyleft on freenode](irc://irc.freenode.net/#copyleft). Please, do not worry if your patches or new sections of text are not properly formatted as patches and/or are not formatted in LaTeX properly. Indeed, feel free to offer patches that break LaTeX formatting. If the content is good, the editor-in-chief or someone else will format your contribution properly for LaTeX. Note: by submitting contributions via any of these means, you agree to the "Author's Certificate of Origin" (see below). ## How Do I Figure Out What To Contribute? If you're looking for something to fix, just grep the *.tex files for "FIXME" and you'll find plenty. Many of them are simple and easy to do. Some of them are writing, and some of them are formatting-related. There is also a [TODO list on the website](https://copyleft.org/todo/), which are mostly related to formatting, layout and infrastructure, but if you'd like to help there, such help is also welcome. ## Merge Request and Patch Workflow Currently, the main location for work on this project is Gitorious, and active new development on the project happens on the 'next' branch. Here is a suggested workflow for submitting patches — first doing so *with* the Gitorious infrastructure and second *avoiding* the Gitorious infrastructure.