# How to Contribute to the r9y-map

## Contributor License Agreement

Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution; this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the project. Head over to https://cla.developers.google.com/ to see your current agreements on file or to sign a new one.

You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it again.

## Community Guidelines
This project follows Google's Open Source Community Guidelines as well as the included Code of Conduct.


## Code Reviews
All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests.

We recommend making suggestions to a Pull Request to collaboratively fix problems.

## General Guidance
* The map is meant to be a browsable view of capabilities, not tied to a particular provider.
* Try to provide rationalization for placement, especially in terms of which Era (how many 9s)
* Fill in details in the accompanying file in `docs/`

## Building a new Map
* Currently this is done via a tool internal to google.com, so just ask Steve!

## Updating details in `docs/`
* PRs are welcome from anyone!


## Etc
* If you represent a vendor, please feel free to note what capabilities your products provide by updating files in `docs/`