The "Start Contributing" section is somewhat unclear and outdated IMHO. Unfortunately since this is not Wiki, I cannot modify it (where is the site's source?).
The section should indicate there are two routes to contribution: * Sending a patch. * Sending a Github Pull Request. *Sending a patch:* There are multiple ways to do this, but the easiest is to clone the ASF or Github repo and use git-format-patch to generate a patch. I don't understand the current verbiage about creating a branch with the ticket number – this may be relevant (for clarity purposes, not for technical reasons) if the user is sending a PR via Github. But since this contribution route does not entail pushing commits anywhere, the branch name should not be relevant. *Sending a Github Pull Request:* Steps I propose (roughly): 1. Fork the ASF mirror repo apache/ignite into your Github account. 2. In your workstation, clone the fork you've just created. 3. Create a branch from master or from a release (if you're submitting a hotfix), with name equal to the ticket number in lowercase and with a hyphen. 4. Work away! 5. When you're ready to submit the pull request, open a Pull Request against apache/ignite and select the target branch (master or release – usually Github will populate this for you automatically). 6. Start the pull request title with the ticket number as given by JIRA keeping capitalisation (IGNITE-nnnn). This will allow the ASF Github bot to match the pull request against the appropriate ticket. As a result, it will add a comment and it will send an email to the dev@ mailing list. 7. In the JIRA ticket, you may edit the ticket and tick the "Patch" option to signal that there's a patch available. Hope this helps, *Raúl Kripalani* Apache Camel PMC Member & Committer | Enterprise Architect, Open Source Integration specialist http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk
