This guide will help you to...

* maximize the chance of your changes being accepted
* work on the Gradle code base
* get help if you encounter trouble

## Before you start

Before starting to work on a feature or a bug fix, please open an issue to discuss the use case or bug with us. This can save everyone a lot of time and frustration.

For any non-trivial change, we need to be able to answer these questions:

you want to debug a kernel, you can compile specific files with `-g` using the
`--per_file_copt` bazel option. For example, if you want to debug the Identity
op, which are in files starting with `identity_op`, you can run

```bash
bazel build --config=dbg --per_file_copt=+tensorflow/core/kernels/identity_op.*@-g //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
```