Contributing

We prefer to receive contributions in the form of GitHub pull requests. Please send pull requests against the github.com/apache/incubator-parquet-mr repository. If you've previously forked Parquet from its old location, you will need to add a remote or update your origin remote to https://github.com/apache/incubator-parquet-mr.git Here are a few tips to get your contribution in:

1. Break your work into small, single-purpose patches if possible. It’s much harder to merge in a large change with a lot of disjoint features.
2. Create a JIRA for your patch on the Parquet Project JIRA.
3. Submit the patch as a GitHub pull request against the master branch. For a tutorial, see the GitHub guides on forking a repo and sending a pull request. Prefix your pull request name with the JIRA name (ex: https://github.com/apache/incubator-parquet-mr/pull/5).
4. Make sure that your code passes the unit tests. You can run the tests with mvn test in the root directory.
5. Add new unit tests for your code.

If you’d like to report a bug but don’t have time to fix it, you can still post it to our issue tracker, or email the mailing list (dev@parquet.incubator.apache.org).