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This page contains guidelines for committers.
Discuss
Every ideas for improvements, new features, and suggestions are recommended to be discussed in polite terms before implementation on the dev@ list, and then its decisions must be listed on our RoadMap page. In simple improvement or bug type issues, you can skip the discussion and report directly on JIRA.
Review
Hama committers should, as often as possible, attempt to review patches submitted by others. Ideally every submitted patch will get reviewed by a committer within a few days. If a committer reviews a patch they've not authored, and believe it to be of sufficient quality, then they can commit the patch, otherwise the patch should be cancelled with a clear explanation for why it was rejected.
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