Title: Getting involved in Apache Jena

We welcome your contribution towards making Jena a better platform for semantic web and linked data applications.
We appreciate feature suggestions, bug reports and patches for code or documentation.

If you need help using Jena, please see our [getting help](../help_and_support) page.

### How to contribute

You can help us sending your suggestions, feature requests and bug reports (as well as patches) using the [Jena issue tracker](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA).

You can discuss your contribution, before or after adding it to Jira, on the [`dev@jena.apache.org`](mailto:dev@jena.apache.org) mailing list.
You can also help other users by answering their questions on the [`users@jena.apache.org`](mailto:users@jena.apache.org) mailing list.
See the [subscription instructions](../help_and_support) for details.

Please see the [Reviewing Contributions](reviewing_contributions.html) page for details of what committers will be looking for when reviewing contributions.

#### Improving the Website

You can also help us improve the documentation on this website by making use of the Apache CMS which drives the website.

Please see [I'm not a committer on $project, which uses the CMS.  Can I still use the
CMS?](http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref#non-committer) for guidance on how to do this.  This process allows you to suggest 
improvements to the project website as patches (because everything at Apache lives in SVN) and helps the wider community. 
Contributions to documentation are always welcome and considered just as valuable as code contributions.

You can click the <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil"></span>*Improve this Page* button (top-right) on any page to instantly open the web based CMS editor.  If prompted you 
will need to use the username `anonymous` and a blank password to log in. Use the *[Diff]* and *[Mail Email]* links to submit your proposed changes to the Apache Jena committers.

### SNAPSHOTs

If you use Apache Maven and you are not afraid of being on the bleeding-edge, you can help us by testing our SNAPSHOTs which you can find in the [Apache Maven repository](https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/jena/).

Here is, for example, how you can add TDB version X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT to your project (please ask if you are unsure what the latest snapshot version number currently is):

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
        <artifactId>jena-tdb</artifactId>
        <version>X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>

See also how to [use Jena with Maven](/download/maven.html).

If you have problems with any of our SNAPSHOTs, [let us know](/help_and_support/).

You can check the state of each Jena development builds
on the [Apache Jenkins continuous integration server](https://builds.apache.org/pview/?match=Jena_.*).



### Git repository

You can find the Jena source code in the Apache git repository: 
[https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/jena.git](https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/jena.git)

There is also a read-only mirror of [Jena on GitHub](https://github.com/apache/jena):

    git clone https://github.com/apache/jena.git
    cd jena
    mvn clean install

You can [fork Jena on GitHub](https://github.com/apache/jena/fork) and also submit [pull requests](https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls) to 
contribute your suggested changes to the code.

### Open issues

You can find a list of the [open issues](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+JENA+AND+status+%3D+Open+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide) on JIRA (sorted by priority).
Or, you can look at the [last week activity](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=jena+updated:-1w) to get a sense of what people are working on.

### Submit your patches

You can develop new contributions and work on patches using either the
Apache-hosted git repository or the [mirror on GitHub](https://github.com/apache/jena
).  

[GitHub pull requests](https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls) are forwarded to the
[dev@jira mailing list](/help_and_support/) for review by the Jena committers. 
You should subscribe to dev@jira to follow the feedback on your pull request. 


Alternatively, patches can be attached directly to issues in Jira 
(click on `More Actions > Attach Files`).

Please, inspect your contribution/patch and make sure it includes all (and
only) the relevant changes for a single issue. Don't forget tests!

If you want to test if a patch applies cleanly you can use:

    patch -p0 < JENA-XYZ.patch

If you use Eclipse: right click on the project name in `Package Explorer`,
select `Team > Create Patch` or `Team > Apply Patch`.

You can also use git:

    git format-patch origin/trunk

### IRC channel

Some Jena developers hang out on #jena on irc.freenode.net.

### How Apache Software Foundation works

To better understand how to get involved and how the Apache Software Foundation works we recommend you read:

 * [http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html](http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html)
 * [http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html](http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html)
 * [http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html](http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html)