contribute.txt

Gluster Hadoop Interface - Contributing
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Overview
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The gluster-hadoop interface is an open source gluster optimized implementation of the org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem class.

Community participation is open to those who follow the process.

Bugs
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Bugs are tracked via Red Hat's Bugzilla tracking tools under the Red Hat Storage component. To open a bug visit Red Hat Bugzilla and select the gluster-hadoop component.

Submitting Patches
To submit a patch to the gluster source repository, use the github.com pull request feature.

Start by creating a clone of the hadoop-gluster github repo. After you've cloned the repo, you can code a fix and push the changes to your personal code repository.

After the changes are pushed to github open a pull request to integrate the changes into the hadoop-gluster source repository.

Please include any technical information about the patch, a link to a bugzilla bug, and any other relevant information.

Request for Merge
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Once your push request has been submited through github please notify bdc@redhat.com. Patches are merged by vote of the PMC.