1) File JIRA ticket GEODE-nna GEODE JIRA ticket on Apache JIRA. Note: JIRA automatically assigns the name GEODE-nn where nn is the actual ticket numberAnyone can register for an account and create an issue.
2) Assign ticket to yourself (click "Assign to me" in JIRA). If you are not a committer, you will need to ask for JIRA 'contributor' permissions. Send an email to dev@geode.apache.org with your JIRA username requesting access.
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4) Follow the same steps as described on Code contributions. If you are committer, once someone was has reviewed your pull request you can merge it yourself.
5) Change ticket status of GEODE-nnthe JIRA ticket from IN PROGRESS to RESOLVED (click "Resolve Issue" and fill in details). Fill in the "Fixed in Version" to match the next release version. If you are not sure about what the next release version is, you can double check gradle.properties - the next version will be versionNumber.releaseType.
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