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Please read this if you intend to contribute to the project.
Apologies in advance for the extra work required here - this is necessary to comply with the Eclipse Foundation's
strict IP policy.
Please also read [this](http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Contributing_via_Git)
In order for any contributions to be accepted you MUST do the following things:
## Sign the [Eclipse Foundation Contributor License Agreement](http://www.eclipse.org/legal/CLA.php).
To sign the Eclipse CLA you need to:
* Obtain an Eclipse Foundation userid. Anyone who currently uses Eclipse Bugzilla or Gerrit systems already has one of those.
If you dont, you need to [register](https://dev.eclipse.org/site_login/createaccount.php).
* Login into the [projects portal](https://projects.eclipse.org/), select “My Account”, and then the “Contributor License Agreement” tab.
## "Sign-off" your commits
Every commit you make in your patch or pull request MUST be "signed off".
You do this by adding the `-s` flag when you make the commit(s), e.g.
git commit -s -m "Shave the yak some more"
## First things
* Get a github account if you don't have one already