git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/blaze-persistence
cd blaze-persistence
Blaze-Persistence is an open source project that is developed in the open. It is mainly developed by individuals and members of Blazebit and everyone is welcome to join the community!
If you can’t find what you are looking for on the Internet or in the documentation you can get into touch with the community around Blaze-Persistence via multiple channels:
Ask anything you want, anytime. You will almost always get an immediate response.
Use the Q&A platform you know for questions or problems by tagging questions with blaze-persistence.
Open a new issue on the GitHub issue tracker and we will take care of it as soon as possible.
Don’t be scared to contribute, submitting an issue or just pointing out on channels that you have a problem is already valuable contribution!
Create issues about problems or just simple questions.
Answer questions on Stackoverflow, on Zulip Chat or on GitHub issues.
Found a typo or would like to re-work sections, maybe even add new sections? Send us a pull requests and you will be surprised how fast that will be merged!
If you write an article about Blaze-Persistence we would love to share that with other users. Let us know, ideally by tweeting about it with #BlazePersistence and we will make sure it gets attention!
Analyzing an issue or creating a reproducable test case for it is already a big help! Some issues are even especially labeled for beginners, so don’t be shy!
We often do some Alpha and Beta releases to bring new features to you early and catch some nasty bugs or design issues. Do some experiments with the releases or switch to the versions in your projects just to see if everything still works smoothly.
Before you can contribute code, you should setup you environment for developing Blaze-Persistence!
Since we are working on GitHub you should start by forking Blaze-Persistence and cloning that repository.
git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/blaze-persistence
cd blaze-persistenceBlaze-Persistence uses Maven so make sure you have a current version installed. You can build the project with the default profiles
mvn clean packageDevelopment should be possible with any IDE but is probably easiest with IntelliJ since the Core team also uses that.
