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Contributors Guide

allenxwang edited this page Jul 5, 2012 · 18 revisions

This document provides information on how to contribute to Archaius.

Report an issue

You can report bugs/suggestions using the following URL

https://github.com/Netflix/archaius/issues

Fork and get the source

You should first fork the Archaius project to your own account. Then you can fetch the source of Archaius from github using the following access points:

After checking out the master branch, you will see the sources and junit tests under


archaius-core/src/main/java
archaius-core/src/test/java

Build

Archaius can be built with both Gradle and Maven, while Gradle is the “official” build tool. Artifacts published to Maven Central will be built with Gradle.

Build with Gradle

Once you have cloned the repo and checked out the master branch, you can use the following command to build from your working directory:


./gradlew clean build

The following directory contains built artifacts and different reports/test results.


archaius-core/build

Build with Maven

Maven build is provided mainly for better Eclipse integration. To build with Maven, use the following command from the working directory


mvn clean package

To integrate with Eclipse, you will need to install m2e and run this command in your eclipse project root directory


mvn eclipse:eclipse

Commit your changes

To commit your changes, you need to issue a pull request from the repo that you have forked. Once your changes are reviewed and approved, they will be merged into the main repo.