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= Get Involved
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The Apache OpenNLP project is developed by volunteers and is always looking for new contributors
to work on all parts of the project. Every contribution is welcome and needed to make it better.
A contribution can be anything from a small documentation typo fix to a new component. We especially welcome contributions from first-time users.

To get started, please first join the Apache OpenNLP mailing lists:

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|Mailing List |Purpose |Subscribe |Unsubscribe |Archives

|Users Mailing List
|This list is the general users mailing list and is for posting most, if not all, relevant questions. If you are trying to decide which list, opennlp-dev or opennlp-users, post here first. Someone will kindly suggest you post to opennlp-dev if it is more appropriate there.
|mailto:users-subscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Subscribe]
|mailto:users-unsubscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Unsubscribe]
|link:++https://lists.apache.org/list.html?users@opennlp.apache.org++[Archives]

|Developers Mailing List
|This list is for development discussions, patch suggestions, and current issues posted
to the issue tracker for the project.
|mailto:dev-subscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Subscribe]
|mailto:dev-unsubscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Unsubscribe]
|link:++https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@opennlp.apache.org++[Archives]

|Commits Mailing List
|This list follows changes to the project. This list is _not_ for questions. This list is used by svn to post changes to the project. If you have questions about any content here, post them to the opennlp-dev list above.
|mailto:commits-subscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Subscribe]
|mailto:commits-unsubscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Unsubscribe]
|link:++https://lists.apache.org/list.html?commits@opennlp.apache.org++[Archives]

|Issues Mailing List
|This list follows changes and posts to JIRA, the projects bug tracking system.  If you have any
issues please post them to the JIRA pages and not to this list. This list is mainly for developers to keep track of changes and issues to be resolved; however, any changes should be posted to the JIRA pages and _not_ _directly_ to this mailing list.
|mailto:issues-subscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Subscribe]
|mailto:issues-unsubscribe@opennlp.apache.org[Unsubscribe]
|link:++https://lists.apache.org/list.html?issues@opennlp.apache.org++[Archives]
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## Making a Contribution

* Create a new issue in the https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP[Apache OpenNLP JIRA]. Please describe the problem or improvement in the body of the issue. For larger issues, please first contact the developer mailing list and describe the problem.
* Next, create a pull request in https://github.com/apache/opennlp/pulls[GitHub].

Bigger contributions can eventually only be accepted when an
https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt[ICLA], https://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt[CCLA]
or https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt[software grant] is on file.

Contributors who have a history of successful participation are invited to join
the project as a committer from the https://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html[PPMC].

## Open Tasks

Please see the https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP[Apache OpenNLP JIRA] for a list of tasks. If you would like to work on a task, please email the developers mailing list and request to do so. You will then be assigned the issue in JIRA.