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If you're a newcomer, feel free to contribute by working on a newbie task.
Before you start, send a message to the Hive developer mailing list, or file a bug report in JIRA. Describe your proposed changes and check that they fit in with what others are doing and have planned for the project. Be patient, it may take folks a while to understand your requirements.
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Contributors should join the Hive mailing lists. In particular the dev list (to join discussions of changes) and the user list (to help others).
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