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Once a pull request is ready to be merged, the following is the process to use to merge into apache master.

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Prerequisite 1 - Setting Up Your Github Environment

See https://git1-us-west.apache.org/

Prerequisite 2 - Setting Up Your Repo

Start with a clean clone of my personal fork of Metron

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Now that you’ve committed locally, you need to push to apache:

git push apache master

Step 6 - Merging the Pull Request: After Action

After committing a PR, you should remember to close the JIRA ticket associated with the PR