Title: Get Involved

You don't need to be a software developer to contribute to Apache MRUnit. To be 
successful this project requires a huge range of different skills, levels of 
involvement and degrees of technical expertise. So, if you want to get involved 
in Apache MRUnit, there is almost certainly a role for you.

We are looking for people to:

  * provide feedback
  * write or update documentation
  * help new users
  * recommend the project to others
  * test the code and report bugs
  * fix bugs
  * give us feedback on required features
  * write and update the software
  * create artwork and other marketing materials
  * translate to different languages
  * anything you can see that needs doing

All of these contributions help to keep a project active and strengthen the 
community. The project team and the broader community will therefore welcome 
and encourage participation, and attempt to make it as easy as possible for 
people to get involved.

## Mailing lists

Your first engagement with the project should be to subscribe to our
[mailing lists][].

## How to Contribute a Patch

  1. Clone repository:

        git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/mrunit.git

  2. Make changes
  3. Run tests
  
        mvn test

  4. Generate patch

        svn add path/to/new/file
        svn diff > JIRA_number.patch

  5. Submit the patch to a [JIRA][]
  6. Email <dev@mrunit.apache.org> if you don't get a response


[mailing lists]: mailing_lists.html
[JIRA]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRUNIT