milleruntime commented on a change in pull request #37: Accumulo 4714 Create landing page for new developers URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo-website/pull/37#discussion_r150627413
########## File path: pages/how-to-contribute.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +--- +title: How To Contribute +permalink: /how-to-contribute/ +redirect_from: /contributor/ +--- + +Contributions are welcome to all Apache Accumulo repositories. While most contributions are code, +there are other ways to contribute to Accumulo: + +* answer questions on mailing lists +* review pull requests +* verify and test new releases +* update the Accumulo website and documentation + +Contributions are reviewed (via GitHub pull requests) by +the community before being merged by a committer. + +This document provides basic instructions for contributing to Accumulo. If you are looking for more information, check out the more comprehensive [contributor guide](/contributors-guide/). + +## Issues + +Any contribution should have a corresponding issue. Accumulo uses [JIRA] for issue tracking. Before creating an issue, +you will need to create an [Apache JIRA account][jira-signup]. If you need help finding an issue to work on, check out +the [open issues labeled for newbies][newbie-issues] or [contact us][contact]. + +## Repositories + +Contributions can be made to the following repositories. While the general contribution workflow is +described below, repositories have special instructions in their `CONTRIBUTING.md` file which can be +viewed by clicking on the `C` in the Links column below. Review comment: I am not a fan of single letter links. Could put the name of the file. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] With regards, Apache Git Services
