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This page gives an overview of how to contribute software changes to Apache Trafodion. It points to additional pages that give more detailed information. New contributors should read this section and understand its material before starting You can contribute by updating software, changing documentation and maintaining the wiki pages.

To contribute to the wiki, see Contribute to the Wiki. 

Overview

Thanks for your interest in contributing. Feel free to ask clarifying question questions on the dev<at>trafodion.incubator.apache.org mail list.

The Trafodion project is now an Incubating a top-level Apache project since December 20th, 2017. 

Workflow

Documentation Guidelines

<TBD - placeholder - the documentation logistics are still being worked out>The Contributor Workflow - Code/Docs describes the contributor work flow.

Coding Guidelines

The Trafodion code follows a set of Coding Guidelines. You should review these before making code changes.

Workflow

The Contributor Workflow - Code/Docs describes the contributor work flow.

Building

Committers

We are always looking for new committers.  If you are a committer please see the instructions in Committer Workflow.Once you have done account setup and have set up your local repository appropriately, you are ready to build the software. See detailed instructions in Building the Software (Under construction ....).

Debugging

While unit testing your code, you may find you need to debug it. For some debugging tips, see Debugging Tips.

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There are test suites for each Trafodion repository. For details, see the Test Suites.

Troubleshooting

Problems can occur while building and running Trafodion, see Troubleshooting for Trafodion Developers for some hints.

Bug Tracking

We use Apache JIRA for tracking bugs in Trafodion. For details, see tracking bugs.