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search the archives. </p><p>Alternatively, for more casual conversations and Q&amp;A, consider using the <a href='https://groovycommunity.com/'>Slack</a> channel. (This channel is not endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation; it&apos;s run by Groovy enthusiasts in the community.)</p><hr class='divider'/><a name='reporting-issues'></a><h2>Reporting issues</h2><p>
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to fix some existing issues, then you should become familiar with Groovy&apos;s <a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY'>Bug tracker</a>.</p><p>Before submitting a new issue, we recommend you read our guide to <a href='http://groovy-lang.org/reporting-issues.html'>reporting issues</a></p><p><button type='button' class='btn btn-default' onclick='window.location.href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY"'>Report an issue</button></p><hr class='divider'/><a name='documenting'></a><h2>Improving the documentation</h2><p>The documentation of the Groovy programming language comes in various forms:</p><ul><li>the <a href='single-page-documentation.html'>reference documentation</a> covering the language specification, the user guides, getting started, and more.</li><li>the <a href='api.html'>GroovyDoc APIs</a> documenting the classes of the Groovy code base</li><li>the <a href='gdk.html'>Groovy GDK</a> documentation, explaining how Groovy enriches the JDK APIs</li><li>this <a href='https://github.com/groovy/groovy-website'>website</a></li></ul><p>To contribute to the Groovy reference documentation, this <a href='http://blog.cacoethes.co.uk/groovyandgrails/contributing-to-the-groovy-documentation'>blog post</a> gives all the details on how you can work on that documentation.</p><p>All the above is stored in our code <a href='https://github.com/groovy'>repositories on Github</a>, so having an account on Github would be ideal.</p><p>
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</p><p>Please check the following section for more information on how to contribute to our codebase.</p><hr class='divider'/><a name='code'></a><h2>Contributing code</h2><p>
If you know the area you want to contribute to, this is great, but if you are looking for
some first contributions, the Groovy development team tries to maintain a <a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator%21executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=project%3DGROOVY+and+labels+%3D+contrib+AND+resolution%3DUnresolved&runQuery=true&clear=true'>list of tickets</a>
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to become a Groovy committer. Just raise your hand on the Groovy developer <a href='mailing-lists.html'>mailing-list</a> to tell us about your desire to work on that ticket.</p><p>
For more complicated tasks, the best approach is also to bring that to the attention of the Groovy developers,
so they can give you some guidance on how best to tackle a particular problem, discuss implementation ideas
and the semantics or scope of the proposed change.
</p><h3>Cloning the code base</h3><p>To work on the Groovy code base, you should be proficient enough in <a href='http://git-scm.com/'>git</a> and you should have an account on <a href='https://github.com/'>Github</a> to be able to create <a href='https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request'>pull requests</a> with your changes.</p><p>Please fork <a href='https://github.com/apache/groovy'>https://github.com/apache/groovy</a> and create a local clone of your fork as explained in <a href='https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/'>fork a repo</a>.</p><p>Make sure you configure Git appropriately with the same email that you registered with on Github:</p><pre><code>git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"
git config --global user.email "YOUR EMAIL"</code></pre><p>You can verify these are configured appropriately by running:</p><pre><code>git config --list</code></pre><h3>Working on the code base</h3><p>If you are working with the IntelliJ IDEA development environment, this <a href='http://melix.github.io/blog/2014/06/contribute-groovy-ide.html'>screencast</a> gives lots of details on how to setup your IDE.</p><p>Then, to work on the Groovy code base, to build and test Groovy, you can follow the <a href='https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/README.adoc'>instructions</a> from the readme file in the Groovy repository.</p><p>The most important command you will have to run before sending your changes is the test command:</p><pre><code>./gradlew test</code></pre><p>For a successful contribution, all tests should be green!</p><h3>Creating a pull request</h3><p>Once you are satisfied with your changes:</p><ul><li>commit your changes in your local branch</li><li>push your changes to your remote branch on Github</li><li>send us a <a href='https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request'>pull request</a></li></ul></article><hr class='divider'/><h2>Build status</h2><p>The Groovy sources are tested thanks to our <a href='buildstatus.html'>continuous integration server</a>.</p><h2>Help Wanted</h2><p>We try to keep a list of tasks that we would greatly appreciate help with in the Apache <a href='https://helpwanted.apache.org/'>Help Wanted</a> app:</p><div style='width: 100%; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;' type='helpwanted' project='groovy' description='the Apache Groovy Project'/><script src='https://helpwanted.apache.org/widget.js' type='text/javascript'/></div></div></div></div><footer id='footer'>
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