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layout: docs title: Submit Changes permalink: /docs/submitchanges.html

After Development Setup, you can follow the steps below to submit your code/comments and document changes.

• Make sure the changes are linked to your Apache JIRA{:target=“_blank”} ticket
• Review your changes according to the JIRA ticket in question
• Building project in the Docker container

  ## for Docker container
  # cd /ws/mnemonic
  # mvn clean install

• Resolve any problems found by building process
• Run your test cases specific to your changes, please refer to bin/test.conf
• Resolve any problems found by your test cases
• Add your test cases to bin/test.conf
• Commit the changes to your local repository in IDE
  for Intellij IDEA, please refer to Committing Changes to a Local Git Repository{:target=“_blank”}
  Please use JIRA id and title to fill up the comment of commit
  for example

  ## for host
  # git commit -m "MNEMONIC-301: Improve the documentation of architecture page"

• Run all test cases if your changes could impact existing functionalities
  Note: Please make sure enough available space for test data generation (>30G)

  ## for Docker container
  # cd /ws/mnemonic
  # bin/runall.sh

• Resolve any problems found by test cases and then amend your previous commit in IDE
  for Intellij IDEA, please refer to Committing Changes to a Local Git Repository{:target=“_blank”}

  ## for host
  # git commit --amend

• Make sure there is only 1 local commit for each JIRA ticket, otherwise please squash them into one
• Rebase your codebase before pushing local commits to your remote repository
  1. fetch update from remote Fetching Changes{:target=“_blank”}

    ## for host
    # git fetch -a
  

  2. Rebase your changes onto upstream/master Rebasing Branches{:target=“_blank”}

    ## for host
    # git rebase upstream/master
  

• Push local commits to your remote repository Pushing Changes{:target=“_blank”}

  ## for host
  # git push origin
  ## NOTE: use force push if your amended commit has already been pushed

• Create a PR in Github Creating a pull request{:target=“_blank”}
• Fix any issues come from community review
• Change the JIRA ticket status to RESOLVED if the button exists