CONTRIBUTING.Rmd

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title: "CONTRIBUTING"
author: Angeline Tillmanns
date: December 10, 2020
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## How to contribute
Government employees, public and members of the private sector are encouraged to contribute to the repository by **forking and submitting a pull request**. 

(If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a [basic tutorial](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git) and  check out a more detailed guide to [pull requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/).)

Pull requests will be evaluated by the repository guardians on a schedule and if deemed beneficial will be committed to the master.

All contributors retain the original copyright to their stuff, but by contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users **under the terms of the license under which this project is distributed.**

**To track copyright, please use the following:** 

**New code file:** At the top of the file, please ensure copyright is attributed to collaborator and assign the Apache 2.0 license

**Major addition to code file:** “Copyright Province of British Columbia” and Apache 2.0 remains as a header and either the second collaborator is added if there are changes throughout the code or copyright is listed for specific lines of code.  So it could read:

Copyright Province of British Columbia and
Copyright Collaborator
Apache 2.0 License

Or 

Copyright Province of British Columbia and
Lines 200-500 Copyright Collaborator
Apache 2.0 License

**Minor changes:**  If there are small changes to the code throughout the file then it may be easiest to keep these files as Copyright Province of British Columbia.  However, the contribution will be tracked through GitHub.