Welcome to Beehive!!! Apache Beehive is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Incubator project. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. If you've come here to learn more about Beehive, here are a few starting points: BUILDING.txt: How to build Beehive on your machine. DEVELOPING.txt Technical notes on contributing/committing files. LICENSE.txt: The Apache License and any other relevant licenses for this software. NOTICE.txt: Attribution notices required by various contributions. Finally, please go to the Apache Beehive website, currently located (while in incubation) at: http://incubator.apache.org/beehive/. There you will find an increasing number of resources to get started.