There is a lot of info here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark
In this particular case I'd start by looking at the JIRA (which already has a pull request posted to it). On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Chandrashekhar Kotekar < shekhar.kote...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Although I have 7+ years experience in Java development, I am new to open > source contribution. To understand which steps one needs to take to work on > some issue and upload those changes, I have decided to work on this > [Spark-8899] issue which is marked as 'trivial'. > > So far I have done following steps : > > 1. Opened http://github.com/apache/spark in chrome > 2. Clicked on 'Fork' button which is on upper right hand side of the page > 3. Cloned the project using github shell app. > > Now what should I do next to work on this issue? Can anyone please help? > > Thanks, > Chandrash3khar Kotekar > Mobile - +91 8600011455 >