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1. Verify that you have the authorization to donate the code.
2. Review our developer documentation as well as the general Apache documentation to determine whether you would really like be involved with us and how we work.
3. Create Assuming you're still interested, create a JIRA issue describing the code you wish to donate.
4. Attach an archive containing the code along with an MD5 signature of the archive to the above issue. You should remove any existing headers from the source files and add the standard Apache header to each. Note that you keep the rights to your code and can do anything with it you want, you will just grant us the right to use it too.
5. Allow the community time to discuss the contribution, after which a vote will be called to accept the contribution.
6. If the vote passes, then you will need to submit a software grant form.
7. It is also a good idea to submit an ICLA to ease future contributions. Depending on the company you work for, they may also want to contribute a CCLA, although this isn't strictly necessary from an Apache point of view, since it is your responsibility to verify your ability to submit an ICLA.
8. Once all of this information is received, then we will gather it and perform IP clearance.
9. After a few days, if no red flags are raised, then we'll commit the code and we're good to go.

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