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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, including the Apache BVal Version Info.
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) and make sure the unit tests runs as expected (try maven clean install to run a full build), and of course, confirm that the problem is actually fixed. Then, go to the root directory of your BVAL checkout, and run a command like svn diff > BVAL-<JIRA_NUMBER>.patch to generate a patch file.
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