| ## Contributing to Spark |
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| *Before opening a pull request*, review the |
| [Contributing to Spark wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark). |
| It lists steps that are required before creating a PR. In particular, consider: |
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| - Is the change important and ready enough to ask the community to spend time reviewing? |
| - Have you searched for existing, related JIRAs and pull requests? |
| - Is this a new feature that can stand alone as a package on http://spark-packages.org ? |
| - Is the change being proposed clearly explained and motivated? |
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| When you contribute code, you affirm that the contribution is your original work and that you |
| license the work to the project under the project's open source license. Whether or not you |
| state this explicitly, by submitting any copyrighted material via pull request, email, or |
| other means you agree to license the material under the project's open source license and |
| warrant that you have the legal authority to do so. |
