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<h1>Many forms of contributions</h1><p><span style="color: rgb(102,102,102);">There are very different ways how you can contribute and some of them are very easy.  We even consider just complaining a good contribution ;-)   As it's always good to know where we can improve.  If you indicate a constructive proposal of how we could improve it, even better.  If you actually supply a patch and a unit test as part of a</span> <span style="color: rgb(102,102,102);"><a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT">jira issue</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102,102,102);">, then becomes very simple for us to evaluate and accept a request.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102,102,102);">If you have an idea for a real code contribution, just follow these steps below.   We grant access very easy to work out your ideas in a branch.</span></p><h1>1) Get the accounts</h1><p><a href="http://activiti.org/community.html">In the community web page</a>, it is explained where and how to setup your accounts.  </p><h1>2) Request membership if you want JIRA assignmemnt</h1><p>If you want JIRA issues to be assigned to you, then you need to become a developer on the codehaus Activiti project.  Go to <a href="http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/activiti">the activiti page on codehaus</a>, Search in the left menu for 'Membership'. And click on 'Apply to join as a Developer'. Then give me a ping by email (t o m ATal fres co dot c o m) as I don't get notified automatically yet.</p><h1>3) Signing a contributor agreement</h1><p>In order for us to be able to accept your contributions, we need you to sign a contributor agreement.  Download, print, sign, scan <a href="http://activiti.org/Alfresco_Contribution_Agreement.pdf">an individual contributor agreement</a>.  Then send the signed scan to t o m ATal fres co dot c o m or jor am aTal fre co dot co om</p><h1>4) Guidelines</h1><p>The 2 most important communication channels with the team are <a href="http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewforum.php?f=4">the developer forum</a> and <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT">our jira issues repository</a>.</p><p>Create an issue in <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT">our jira issues repository</a> or comment on an existing issue for the work that you plan to commit.  Explain what you plan to do and ask for feedback.</p><p>You can propose contributions by forking the activiti repository in your personal github space and then creating <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests">a pull request</a>.</p><p>Check out <a href="http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2012/09/24/how-to-write-a-unit-test/">http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2012/09/24/how-to-write-a-unit-test/</a> It explains how to write a unit test for a contribution.  When you supply a unit test, it greatly enhances the chance of your contributions to be accepted.</p><p>Before you submit a pull request, always run <strong><em>mvn -Pcheck clean install</em></strong> and ensure it runs fine.  It's good if you indicate that you've ran this successfully.</p><h1>5) If you want suggestions for contributions, check the issues assigned to the 'Contributable' release</h1><p><img class="editor-inline-macro" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro?definition=e2ppcmFpc3N1ZXM6YW5vbnltb3VzPXRydWV8Y29sdW1ucz10eXBlLGtleSxzdW1tYXJ5LGFzc2lnbmVlLHN0YXR1c3x1cmw9aHR0cDovL2ppcmEuY29kZWhhdXMub3JnL3NyL2ppcmEuaXNzdWV2aWV3czpzZWFyY2hyZXF1ZXN0LXhtbC90ZW1wL1NlYXJjaFJlcXVlc3QueG1sP2pxbFF1ZXJ5PXByb2plY3QrJTNEK0FDVCtBTkQrZml4VmVyc2lvbislM0QrMTg5NjAmdGVtcE1heD0xMDAwfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2" data-macro-name="jiraissues" data-macro-parameters="anonymous=true|columns=type,key,summary,assignee,status|url=http://jira.codehaus.org/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery\=project+%3D+ACT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+18960&amp;tempMax\=1000"></p>