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## Join the Apache River Community

The Apache River project is being built by the open source community for the open source community. We truly welcome your input and contributions!

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### What we are looking for:


 * Bug fixes and code enhancement contributions
 * Source code contributions
 * Documentation assistance and contributions
 * Feature suggestions
 * Detailed and constructive feedback
 * Articles and white papers
 * Web site improvements


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  A recent <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/river-dev/201802.mbox/%3cCAEdUjjj+OCs_Q5sLaSQmBEJsKKF-En0432YWoTcN4PzppmTMiw@mail.gmail.com%3e">initiative</a>
  aims at revising JINI specifications:

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<small>
  "The idea is to prioritize the modernization of the River
  specification into a set of language a d transport agnostic architectural
  principles. River currently supports architectural concepts like discovery,
  events, proxies and more! In reality, both the implementation language and
  communication transport are minor details."
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</blockquote>
  <p>
  <a href="#" class="alert-link">Help the community in this exciting modernization plan!</a>
  </p>

  Read the above thread to get a context, use <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-450">JIRA</a> to find a
  task you are interested in and follow our <a href="https://river.apache.org/dev-doc/source-code.html">source code guidelines</a>
  to submit changes to specifications.

  Thank you!
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### How do I contribute?

 * To discuss Apache River topics check out the [mailing lists](mailing-lists.html).
 * Bugs and other issues can be posted in the [RIVER](http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER) issue tracker.
 See more info [here](found-a-bug.html).
 * The [River wiki](http://wiki.apache.org/river/) is open for anyone to contribute related documentation.
 * [Learn](website.html) how to deal with Web site related issues