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+# Contributing to libva
+
+Libva is an open source project licensed under the [MIT License] (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+
+## Coding Style
+
+Libva does not have a defined coding style at this time, but that will be updated.
+
+## Certificate of Origin
+
+In order to get a clear contribution chain of trust we use the [signed-off-by language] (https://01.org/community/signed-process)
+used by the Linux kernel project.
+
+## Patch format
+
+Beside the signed-off-by footer, we expect each patch to comply with the following format:
+
+```
+<component>: Change summary
+
+More detailed explanation of your changes: Why and how.
+Wrap it to 72 characters.
+See [here] (http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/)
+for some more good advices.
+
+Signed-off-by: <contributor@foo.com>
+```
+
+For example:
+
+```
+drm: remove va_drm_is_authenticated check
+    
+If we do not use a render node we must authenticate. Doing the extra
+GetClient calls/ioctls does not help much, so don't bother.
+    
+Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
+Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
+Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
+Reviewed-by: Sean V Kelley <seanvk@posteo.de>
+```
+
+## Pull requests
+
+We accept github pull requests.
+
+Once you've finished making your changes push them to your fork and send the PR via the github UI.
+
+## Issue tracking
+
+If you have a problem, please let us know.  IRC is a perfectly fine place
+to quickly informally bring something up, if you get a response.  The
+[mailing list](http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libva)
+is a more durable communication channel.
+
+If it's a bug not already documented, by all means please [open an
+issue in github](https://github.com/01org/libva/issues/new) so we all get visibility
+to the problem and can work towards a resolution.
+
+For feature requests we're also using github issues, with the label
+"enhancement".
+
+Our github bug/enhancement backlog and work queue are tracked in a
+[Libva waffle.io kanban](https://waffle.io/01org/libva).
+
+## Closing issues
+
+You can either close issues manually by adding the fixing commit SHA1 to the issue
+comments or by adding the `Fixes` keyword to your commit message:
+
+```
+ssntp: test: Add Disconnection role checking tests
+
+We check that we get the right role from the disconnection
+notifier.
+
+Fixes #121
+
+Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
+```
+
+Github will then automatically close that issue when parsing the
+[commit message](https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages/).