How to Submit Patches to Apache Airavata

This post describes how an Airavata user can contribute to the Airavata project by submitting patches. User can follow the steps given below.

• Identify an issue that you want to fix or improve
• Search JIRA and the mailing list to see if it’s already been discussed
• If it’s a bug or a feature request, open a JIRA issue
• Create a sample that you can use for prototyping the feature or demonstrating the bug. If creating a sample is time consuming, write steps to reproduce the issue.
• Attach this sample to the JIRA issue if it’s representing a bug report.
• Setup a svn client in your system.
• Checkout the source code.
• If it is the source trunk;
• svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/airavata/trunk
• If it is the site documentation trunk;
• svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/airavata/site/trunk
• Make your changes
• Create the patch:
  • svn add any_files_you_added
  • svn diff > /tmp/fix-AIRAVATA-NNNN.patch
• Attach that file (/tmp/fix-AIRAVATA-NNNN.patch) to the JIRA