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DataNucleus is an Open Source development. It is written by many people yet has a broad scope
and so is in need of help. Since the software is free you, the user, are benefitting from this
work. You have a duty to contribute to the project.
You can help
the project in many ways. Here are some examples
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Answer questions on the Forum
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New users DataNucleus need to learn somewhere just like you did when you first used DataNucleus.
You could monitor the forum when you have free time and attempt to answer people's questions.
People will appreciate it even if you don't know all of the answers.
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Debug problems in the code
before reporting them on the Forum. You can isolate
the issue to a particular area of code even if you don't know the solution, and post
your findings on the Forum for one of the developers to pick up and progress further.
Better still contribute patches
so it saves our time in working out where the
problem lies. These will be much more valuable to us. Contribute any patches in
patch format ("diff -u").
Please see the DataNucleus code format convention
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Volunteer to be a developer
of DataNucleus. You can do this by going to the "Volunteers"
section of our Forum and post the developer agreement (stored in one of the threads in that
Forum). Thereafter you can push DataNucleus further yourself when you have time. Be aware though
that once you have gained commit rights, inactivity for a period of time (e.g 3 months) will mean
that you will lose these rights. You could volunteer to work on a particular part of DataNucleus
(e.g RDBMS) or all of it, up to you.
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Donate to the project
. This will help to fund the time of
one of the main developers and will mean that DataNucleus functionality will be expanded faster
due to your help.
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Contribute documentation or worked examples
that can be included in the online documentation.
If you think there is something missing from our documents then you can write it and contribute it
and others will benefit from your work just like you have benefited from our DataNucleus product.
You can contribute these via either the Forum or
by raising an issue in JIRA
We hope that the above has given you some idea how your time can be used to benefit the common goal
of having a quality Java persistence solution free for all to use.
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