This guide is for those who are new to Juneau and want to contribute code, specifically those who do not have write access to our repositories https://github.com/apache/juneau

Step-by-step guide

  1. Create a fork of the repository you want to contribute to - https://github.com/apache/juneau - or - https://github.com/apache/juneau-website - the fork button is in the top right corner
  2. Clone your fork of the repository locally
  3. Make changes to your local clone.  If you haven't already, create a JIRA issue.
  4. Commit them locally, using the commit format of "JIRA-TICKET - What you changed" e.g. "JUNEAU-123 - Made JUNEAU better."
  5. Push these changes to your fork
  6. Navigate back to your fork or to our github repositories and you'll see an option to create a new pull request.
  7. Click on the blue link "Pull request" to bring up the create pull request screen.
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  8. After you've filled out a title and description, click on the green "Create pull request" button.