Contributor's Guide

Code of Conduct

This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

Note: Please don't file an issue to ask a question. You'll usually get faster feedback on Gitter.

Join the chat on Gitter and post your question there.

As with any open source project, there are several ways you can help:

Submit bug reports and feature requests into the issue tracker
Submit patches to reported issues (both those you find, or that others have filed)
Help with the documentation

Please provide detailed information about your environment and steps to reproduce the problem. Specifically, please include the following:

Output of mvn --version command:
- Operating system
- Maven version
- Java version
Whether you are running Maven inside an IDE, and in that case, which IDE
Plugin configuration
Any relevant information from the log files

Patches and pull requests are very welcome as long as they adhere to the following simple rules:

the existing coding style is preserved;
the patch does not needlessly introduce major code refactorings;
the patch preserves backwards compatibility;
no existing integration tests are broken by the patch;
code and site documentation is updated, all new goals and parameters are marked with @since <version> tag;
javadocs are kept compliant with doclint;
ideally, integration tests are provided to cover the changes introduced in the patch.