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     <title>How to Submit a Change</title>
 
     <para>
-        During the development process it is necessary to submit your changes to the maintainer 
-        of the project.  
-        Furthermore, in a collaborative environment it is necessary to have some sort of standard 
+        Contributions to the Yocto Project are very welcome. 
+        You should send patches to the Yocto Project mailing list to get it in front of the 
+        Yocto Project Maintainer.  
+        When you send your patch, be sure to include a "signed-off-by:"
+        line in the same style as required by the Linux kernel. 
+        Adding this line signifies the developer has agreed to the Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+        as follows:
+        <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+     By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+     (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+         have the right to submit it under the open source license
+         indicated in the file; or
+
+     (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+         of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+         license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+         work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+         by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+         permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+         in the file; or
+
+     (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+         person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+         it.
+
+     (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+         are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+         personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+         maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+         this project or the open source license(s) involved.
+        </literallayout>
+        A Poky contributions tree (<filename>poky-contrib</filename>, 
+        <filename>git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib.git</filename>)
+        exists for contributors to stage contributions.
+        If people desire such access, please ask on the mailing list. 
+        Usually, the Yocto Project team will grant access to anyone with a proven track 
+        record of good patches.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+        In a collaborative environment, it is necessary to have some sort of standard 
         or method through which you submit changes.  
         Otherwise, things would get quite chaotic.  
     </para>
 
     <para>
-        When you submit a change or patch to the Yocto Project you must follow certain procedures.  
+        When you submit a change or patch to the Yocto Project, you must follow certain procedures.  
         In particular, the headers in patches and the commit messages must follow a certain standard.  
         The general process is the same as described earlier in this chapter.  
         For complete details on how to create proper commit messages and patch headers see