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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN"
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| 3 | "topic.dtd">
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| 4 | <topic id="bugfixguidelines" xml:lang="en-us">
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| 5 | <title>Due diligence for submission of bug fixes and patches from
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| 6 | non-committers</title>
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| 7 | <titlealts>
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| 8 | <navtitle>Bug fix guidelines</navtitle>
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| 9 | </titlealts>
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| 10 | <shortdesc>Any organization or individual may submit bug fixes using
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| 11 | a github "pull request", generally tied to a specific report in the
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| 12 | project's issue tracker.</shortdesc>
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| 13 | <body>
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| 14 | <p>Before committing code from a bug fix or patch provided by a third
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| 15 | party who has not signed a current contribution form for the project,
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| 16 | Committers should ask the following questions and follow up as appropriate
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| 17 | in order to ensure that the code can be contributed to the project: </p>
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| 18 | <ul>
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| 19 | <li>What is your name and who is your employer?</li>
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| 20 | <li>Did you write the code that you wish to contribute to the DITA
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| 21 | Open Toolkit project? (If the contributor says no, the code
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| 22 | should not become a “Contribution” to the project. The contributor
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| 23 | may be asked to identify the complete details of the code’s source
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| 24 | and of any licenses or restrictions applicable to the code, but the
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| 25 | work should be conspicuously marked as “Submitted on behalf of a third-party:
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| 26 | [name of contributor]”.)</li>
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| 27 | <li>Do you have the right to grant the copyright and patent licenses
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| 28 | for the contribution that are set forth in the CPL version 1.0 license
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| 29 | and Apache License version 2.0?</li>
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| 30 | <li>Does your employer have any rights to code that you have written,
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| 31 | for example, through your contract for employment? If so, has your
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| 32 | employer given you permission to contribute the code on its behalf
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| 33 | or waived its rights in the code?</li>
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| 34 | <li>Are you aware of any third-party licenses or other restrictions
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| 35 | (such as related patents or trademarks) that could apply to your contribution?
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| 36 | If so, what are they?</li>
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| 37 | </ul>
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| 38 | </body>
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| 39 | </topic>
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