Contributing to Cassandra

• Getting Started
  • Initial Contributions
  • Updating documentation
  • Answering questions on the user list
  • Reviewing and testing a submitted patch
  • Investigate and/or fix a reported bug
  • Create unit tests and Dtests
• Building and IDE Integration
  • Building From Source
  • Setting up Cassandra in IntelliJ IDEA
  • Setting up Cassandra in Eclipse
• Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • DTests
  • Performance Testing
• Contributing Code Changes
  • Choosing What to Work on
  • Before You Start Coding
  • Creating a Patch
• Code Style
  • General Code Conventions
  • Exception handling
  • Boilerplate
  • Multiline statements
  • Whitespace
  • Imports
  • Format files for IDEs
• Review Checklist
• How-to Commit
• Working on Documentation
  • How Cassandra is documented
  • GitHub based work flow
  • Jira based work flow
  • Working on documents locally using Sphinx
  • Notes for committers
• Jenkins CI Environment
  • About CI testing and Apache Cassandra
  • Setting up your own Jenkins server
• Dependency Management
  • Required steps to add or update libraries
  • POM file types
  • Troubleshooting and conflict resolution
• Release Process
  • Prerequisites
  • Create Release Artifacts
  • Call for a Vote
  • Post-vote operations