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### 4.3 When you are approved for write access to project’s files

As you might know, GRUB is hosted on https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grub Savannah, thus the membership is managed by Savannah. This means that, if you want to be a member of this project:

1. You need to create your own account on Savannah.
2. You can submit “Request for Inclusion” from “My Groups” on Savannah.

Then, one of the admins can approve your request, and you will be a member. If you don’t want to use the Savannah interface to submit a request, you can simply notify the admins by email or something else, alternatively. But you still need to create an account beforehand.

NOTE: we sometimes receive a “Request for Inclusion” from an unknown person. In this case, the request would be just discarded, since it is too dangerous to allow a stranger to be a member, which automatically gives him a commit right to the repository, both for a legal reason and for a technical reason.

If your intention is to just get started, please do not submit a inclusion request. Instead, please subscribe to the mailing list, and communicate first (e.g. sending a patch, asking a question, commenting on another message...).