Added by Johan Oskarsson, last edited by Johan Oskarsson on Apr 10, 2009
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- Check if someone else have already begun work on the change you have in mind in the issue tracker
- If not, create a ticket describing the change you're proposing in the issue tracker
- Check out the latest version of the source code
- svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/trunk cassandra-trunk
- Modify the source to include the improvement/bugfix
- Verify that you follow Cassandra's formatting conventions (Use http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-eclipse-formatter.xml if you use Eclipse)
- Verify that your change works by adding a unit test.
- Make sure all tests pass by running "ant test" in the project directory.
- When you're happy with the result create a patch:
- svn add <any new file>
- svn diff > CASSANDRA-issuenumber.patch
- Attach the newly generated patch to the issue and click "Submit patch" in the left side of the JIRA page
- Wait for other developers or committers to review it and hopefully +1 the ticket
- Wait for a committer to commit it.