Found a Bug?
If you think you've found a problem with OpenJPA, there are several ways to proceed.
You can begin by raising the issue on the OpenJPA Developer mailing list (see Mailing Lists).
You can also search JIRA, our issue-tracking system, to see if the problem has already been noted (visit JIRA). If the issue is not listed there, you can add a new JIRA issue describing it. Please include detailed steps to reproduce the problem.
If you have a fix for the issue, you can generate a patch file to send the fix to us. You need to check out the current source code from Subversion (see Source Code), make the necessary changes (see Coding Standards), and then do a full build with all tests enabled (see Building OpenJPA) and make sure the unit tests runs as expected (try maven -o clean package
to run a full build), and of course, confirm that the problem is actually fixed. Then, go to the trunk directory of your OpenJPA checkout, and run a command like svn diff > OPENJPA-243.patch
to generate a patch file.
To submit a patch, create an issue in JIRA that describes the problem, and add your patch file as an attachment. Please include detailed steps to reproduce the problem in the issue description, and a test case in the patch where possible (see Unit Tests).
Thanks for working with us to improve Apache OpenJPA!
Copyright notices for submitted patches
Please see http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html for details of the following summary.
Apache does not require you to assign ownership or copyright for any patches that you submit via the above process. You retain ownership for all such patches. But Apache does require you to grant Apache a license to use the patch. To do this for new files, do not include a copyright statement in the file but include this license as comments in the header of your source contribution:
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one |
or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file |
distributed with this work for additional information |
regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file |
to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the |
"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance |
with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, |
software distributed under the License is distributed on an |
"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY |
KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the |
specific language governing permissions and limitations |
under the License. |
If you require that distributions of the project include your copyright notice, you should include with your patch an update to the NOTICE file at trunk/openjpa-project/NOTICE.txt documenting for which files you are notifying your copyright.