Title: Getting Involved

Join the Apache BVal Community

The Apache BVal project is being built by the open source community for the open source community - we welcome your input and contributions!

What we are looking for

• Source code and fixes contributions
• Test cases for issues encountered during application development
• Documentation assistance
• Product and feature suggestions
• Detailed and constructive feedback
• Articles and whitepapers

How do I Contribute?

• To discuss Apache BVal topics check out the mailing lists .
• Bugs and other issues can be posted on the project JIRA .

I have encountered an issue with Apache BVal. What do I do now?

• Post a message to our User's list to discuss the issue.
• Search existing JIRA issues to see whether someone has already encountered the same issue.
• If this issue has never been encountered before, create a JIRA issue .
• Develop a test case to demonstrate the issue.
• Attach the new test to JIRA issue.
• Check out the Found a Bug page for more details on creating and submitting patches.

I have encountered an issue with Apache BVal and have fixed it in the source code. How do I get the changes into svn?

• Create a JIRA issue that describes the changes you‘ve made (you’ll need an Apache JIRA account to do this).
• Check out the source code and make your changes.
• Create test cases to validate your changes.
• svn add any new files.
• Run mvn test -Dtest=[MyTestCase] to validate your change. You need to specify the test to run by its simple name without package name.
• Run the an entire build with tests by running mvn clean install for any possible regression. This should take 2-5 minutes or so.
• Check out the Found a Bug page for more details on creating and submitting patches.
• Wait for a committer to review and check in your changes.