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A great way to contribute to Spark is to help answer user questions on the mailing list. There are always many new Spark users; taking a few minutes to help answer a question is a very valuable community service! On the JIRA issue tracker, helping investigate, isolate, and reproduce bugs reported on the issue tracker is a great way to get more familiar with Spark components, and a good first step towards contributing code to those components.

Testing and Voting on Spark Releases

Spark's release process is community-oriented, and members of the community can vote on new releases on the spark-dev mailing list. Spark users are invited to test their workloads on newer release and provide feedback on any performance or correctness issues found in the newer release. This type of testing is a valuable and greatly appreciated contribution. 

Contributing Code

We prefer to receive contributions in the form of GitHub pull requests. Start by opening an issue for your change on the Spark Project JIRA (and make sure to search whether there's an existing issue). For code reviews, we use the github.com/apache/spark repository.

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