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+## Contributions
+
+Contributions are only accepted under the following conditions:
+
+- The contribution have certified origin and give us your permission. To manage this process we use
+ [Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) V1.1](https://developercertificate.org/).
+ To indicate that contributors agree to the terms of the DCO, it's necessary "sign off" the
+ contribution by adding a line with name and e-mail address to every git commit message:
+
+ ```log
+ Signed-off-by: John Doe <john.doe@example.org>
+ ```
+
+ This can be done automatically by adding the `-s` option to your `git commit` command.
+ You must use your real name, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions are accepted.
+
+- You give permission according to the [Apache License 2.0](../LICENSE_APACHE_2.0.txt).
+
+ In each source file, include the following copyright notice:
+
+ ```copyright
+ /*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright <years additions were made to project> <your name>, Arm Limited and/or its affiliates <open-source-office@arm.com>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+ ```
+
+### Coding standards and guidelines
+
+This repository follows a set of guidelines, best practices, programming styles and conventions,
+see:
+
+- [Coding standards and guidelines](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md)
+ - [Introduction](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#introduction)
+ - [Language version](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#language-version)
+ - [File naming](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#file-naming)
+ - [File layout](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#file-layout)
+ - [Block Management](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#block-management)
+ - [Naming Conventions](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#naming-conventions)
+ - [C++ language naming conventions](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#c_language-naming-conventions)
+ - [C language naming conventions](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#c-language-naming-conventions)
+ - [Layout and formatting conventions](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#layout-and-formatting-conventions)
+ - [Language usage](./docs/sections/coding_guidelines.md#language-usage)
+
+### Code Reviews
+
+Contributions must go through code review. Code reviews are performed through the
+[mlplatform.org Gerrit server](https://review.mlplatform.org). Contributors need to sign up to this
+Gerrit server with their GitHub account credentials.
+In order to be merged a patch needs to:
+
+- get a "+1 Verified" from the pre-commit job.
+- get a "+2 Code-review" from a reviewer, it means the patch has the final approval.
+
+### Testing
+
+Prior to submitting a patch for review please make sure that all build variants works and unit tests pass.
+Contributions go through testing at the continuous integration system. All builds, tests and checks must pass before a
+contribution gets merged to the main branch.