**Table of Contents**

- [Contributing guidelines](#contributing-guidelines)
    - [Terms](#terms)
    - [Certificate of Origin](#certificate-of-origin)
    - [DCO Sign Off](#dco-sign-off)
    - [Code of Conduct](#code-of-conduct)
    - [Contributing a patch](#contributing-a-patch)
    - [Issue and pull request management](#issue-and-pull-request-management)
    - [Pre-check before submitting a PR](#pre-check-before-submitting-a-pr)

# Contributing guidelines

## Terms

All contributions to the repository must be submitted under the terms of the [Apache Public License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Certificate of Origin

By contributing to this project, you agree to the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). This document was created by the Linux Kernel community and is a simple statement that you, as a contributor, have the legal right to make the contribution. See the [DCO](https://github.com/open-cluster-management/community/blob/main/DCO) file for details.

## DCO Sign Off

You must sign off your commit to state that you certify the [DCO](https://github.com/open-cluster-management/community/blob/main/DCO). To certify your commit for DCO, add a line like the following at the end of your commit message:

```
Signed-off-by: John Smith <john@example.com>
```

This can be done with the `--signoff` option to `git commit`. See the [Git documentation](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt--s) for details.

## Code of Conduct

The Open Cluster Management project has adopted the CNCF Code of Conduct. Refer to our [Community Code of Conduct](https://github.com/open-cluster-management/community/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for details.

## Contributing a patch

1. Submit an issue describing your proposed change to the repository in question. The repository owners will respond to your issue promptly.
2. Fork the desired repository, then develop and test your code changes.
3. Submit a pull request.

## Issue and pull request management

Anyone can comment on issues and submit reviews for pull requests. In order to be assigned an issue or pull request, you can leave a `/assign <your Github ID>` comment on the issue or pull request (PR).

## Pre-check before submitting a PR 
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Before submitting a PR, please perform the following steps:

- Run steps in [Running tests](README.md#running-tests) in order to verify that the unit and E2E tests are passing
