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 If your contribution is owned by your employer you need the
 [Corporate Contributor License Agreement](https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-corporate).
 
-Once the license agreement is in place, you can upload your patches
-using 'git cl' which is available in depot_tools. Once you have a
+Once the license agreement is in place, please send an email to
+[r8-dev@googlegroups.com](mailto:r8-dev@googlegroups.com) to be added as a
+contributor.
+
+After being added as a contributer you can upload your patches
+using `git cl` which is available in `depot_tools`. Once you have a
 change that you are happy with you should make sure that it passes
 all tests and then upload the change to our code review tool using:
 
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 ## Getting help
 
-For questions, reach out to us at r8-dev@googlegroups.com.
+For questions, reach out to us at
+[r8-dev@googlegroups.com](mailto:r8-dev@googlegroups.com).
 
 For D8, find known issues in the
 [D8 issue tracker](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=componentid:317603)