contribute.html

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layout: page
title: Contributing to the design system
description: This page explains the process (or processes) by which the design system gets updated
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## People
Describe who's involved in changes to the system. Describe who's expected to do the work and who approves changes.

## Process
Describe specifically the process or processes by which the system gets [updated](http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/chapter-5/#making-changes-to-patterns). What happens when existing component need modified? What if an entire new component needs created? What happens if a component is deprecated? See [Canonical's fantastic decision tree](http://design.canonical.com/2016/07/getting-vanilla-ready-for-v1-the-roadmap/) for contributing changes to their design system.

Since a design system is made up of component code, guidelines, documentation, design tools, and resources, keep in mind you'll likely need to define several processes to contribute each of these ingredients.

## Support
Cross-linking to the <a href="{{ "/support.html" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">support page</a> is a good idea here.