Thanks for your interest! Hibernate ORM is an open source project and community. Contributions, of any type or any scope, drive the project forward!
There are lots of ways to become part of the community and contribute, not just writing/fixing code…
Help Other Users
The community page lists a few places for users to find help such as Zulip and forums. Not to mention that users often look for help in other places such as StackOverflow or JBoss forums. A great way to get involved in the community is to share your knowledge with others who need it.
Improve Documentation
An extension of helping other users is to contribute documentation. Its the help that keeps on giving!
Whether you simply fix a typo, re-word an unclear section or add a whole new section/topic, improving the documentation helps everyone.
Discuss Development
As the development team discusses design of new features or tries to prioritize work it is great to have input from users. As the saying goes, it is better to measure twice and cut once; and the more eyes we have on theses designs and the more voices in the discussions, the better measurements we get.
You can find the different places to get involved in discussing development on the Community page.
Report/Investigate Bugs
Trying out releases and reporting/fixing problems is in many ways the cornerstone of open source development. It is especially critical in the case of early releases (Alphas and Betas) as we are trying to solidify APIs and contracts.
When creating a bug report, please have a test case available that can be 1.) used to reproduce the issue and 2.) used as a long-term regression test. Please see Hibernate Test Case Templates for an easy way to start!
Even if you cannot help code the fix for a bug, submitting test cases for reported bugs that did not provide tests is a great help get these bugs resolved.
Speaking of JIRA, helping us identify issues that duplicate other issues or that are out of date is a great help as well. And voting for issues that are important to you is important in terms of how the development team sets priorities.
Contribute code
Details on contribiuting code (and documentation) are covered in the CONTRIBUTING.md file available in the repository’s root directory (https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
Details on building the project are covered in the README.md file also available in the repository’s root directory (https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/README.md).
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