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This will allow specification of the your branch which has the changes, and will open a PR for review by the committers of the project.

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Code Review Process

Apache NIFI has a Review-Then-Commit (RTC) philosophy for handling all contributions.  Reviewers first ensure that the code applies and builds appropriately to the build, passes the code standards as established by the Maven profile "contrib-check."  From here, code is evaluated to ensure best practices within the NiFi framework are applied and, where applicable, that the user experience of interfacing with the contribution is consistent and any changes are backwards compatible.  This process may be iterative but works toward a final product that is then merged into the codebase. 

While only committers can actively promote contributions into the repository, feedback on issues, regardless of committer status, is appreciated and valued in the review process.

A If you are interested in facilitating the review process, a listing of all code contributions with a patch are available via a JIRA filter, NIFI Patch Available.

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