The Apache OpenJPA project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. Suggested changes should come in the form of source code and/or very detailed and constructive feedback.

• Discussion occurs on the OpenJPA mailing lists
• Information on access to the project source code is available here.
• Bugs and other issues can be posted on the project JIRA
• Additional documentation and discussion can be found on the project wiki

If you're interested in committing to the project:

• You'll need to fill out some legal paperwork and go through a process to get an apache committer account: See New Committers Guide, Contributors, and Committers for more details.

• After you've received an email from root@apache.org with your committer account information, change your initial password: Login by 'ssh -l <username> people.apache.org'; run 'passwd'; run 'svnpasswd'. See Committer Subversion Access .

• Check out the OpenJPA sources and test your svn account: SubversionRepository.

• Sign up for a WiKi account.

• Sign up for an ASF JIRA account.