Create Contributions

Prerequisites

Make sure you have

• existing Eclipse Foundation Account,
• the Eclipse Contributor Agreement signed,
• your local Git client properly configured.

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Way of contributing

1. Fork (and not clone) the project repository.
   • Working with forks
2. Create a new branch in your fork and from the development branch for your contribution.
   (Creating and pushing new branches within a cloned repository is allowed only for official Committers)
3. Take care of coding clean!
   • Clean coding in Java
   • A short summary of Java coding best practices
4. Make sure you have a working contribution
   • Write unit tests
   • Run several test scenario
5. Make sure you are not using restricted third party library
   • Build the project with mvn clean install -P license-check -DskipTests. After the project build has been finished, you will find a summary about the used libraries in the \target\dash\summary file. Look for your newly added libraries and make sure they are not restricted.
6. Synchronize the development branch in your fork and merge it into your contribution branch
7. Rise a Pull Request from your fork to the development branch of the original project repository.
   • Creating a pull request from a fork
8. Wait for the review.
   • Pull requests with ECA issue, merge conflict, unit test issues or running issues will be closed without review
9. Deal with the requested fixes if any.
10. When your Pull Request is approved, then it will be merged by a committer and will be contained by the coming release