# Contributing to Dubbo
Dubbo is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 licenses and follows a very standard Github development process, using Github tracker for issues and merging pull requests into master. Contributions of all form to this repository is acceptable, as long as it follows the prescribed community guidelines enumerated below.

## Sign the Contributor License Agreement
Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request (PRs), we will need you to sign the Contributor License Agreement. Signing the contributors' agreement does not grant anyone commits rights to the main repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an author credit if we do. Active contributors may get invited to join the core team that will grant them privileges to merge existing PRs.

## Contact

The mailing list is the recommended way of pursuing a discussion on almost anything related to Dubbo. Please refer to this [guide](https://github.com/apache/dubbo/wiki/Mailing-list-subscription-guide) for detailed documentation on how to subscribe.

- [dev@dubbo.apache.org](mailto:dev-subscribe@dubbo.apache.org): the developer mailing list where you can ask questions about an issue you may have encountered while working with Dubbo.
- [commits@dubbo.apache.org](mailto:commits-subscribe@dubbo.apache.org): the commit updates will get broadcasted on this mailing list. You can subscribe to it, should you be interested in following Dubbo's development.
- [notifications@dubbo.apache.org](mailto:notifications-subscribe@dubbo.apache.org): all the Github [issue](https://github.com/apache/dubbo/issues) updates and [pull request](https://github.com/apache/dubbo/pulls) updates will be sent to this mailing list.

## Reporting issue

Please create an issue [here](https://github.com/apache/dubbo-admin)