If you have a question or need any help...

Please use the mailing list instead of creating issues on the tracker. Thank you!

Reporting a bug

• Create a new issue on the tracker.
• The best way to report a bug is to create a failing test case. Please see the Contributing code section.

Proposing a new feature

• It is a good idea to discuss your changes on the mailing list to get feedback from the community.
• If you have a patch with unit tests, send a pull request. Please see the Contributing code section.

Improving documentation

• Documentations are placed under src/site directory in the xdoc format, so it is basically the same as creating a patch to contribute documentation changes. Please see the Contributing code section.

Contributing code

Copyright and License

• You are the author of your contributions and will always be.
• Everything you can find it this project is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0
• Every contribution you do must be licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. Otherwise we will not be able to accept it.
• Please make sure that all the new files you create hold the following header:

/*
 *    Copyright [year] the original author or authors.
 *
 *    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *    You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 *    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 *    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 *    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 *    limitations under the License.
 */

How to send your modifications as a pull request

The best way to submit a patch is to send a pull request.
Here are the steps of a typical workflow.

1. Fork the repository on GitHub.
2. Clone your fork to your local machine.
3. Create a topic branch with a descriptive name.
4. Make changes with unit tests in the topic branch.
5. Push commits to your fork on GitHub.
6. Send a pull request.

For steps 1 to 3, please read this GitHub help if you are not familiar with these operations.
Step 4 and 5 are basic git operations. Please see the online documentation for its usage.

For how to write a unit test, please see the unit test page.