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    <h1>How to Contribute</h1>

    <h2 id="the-apache-stormcrawler-community">The Apache StormCrawler (Incubating) Community</h2>
    <p>If you have questions about the contribution process or want to discuss specific issues, please interact with the community using the following resources.</p>

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        <li><a href="https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@stormcrawler.apache.org">StormCrawler dev mailing list</a>: for StormCrawler development discussions. <a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@stormcrawler.apache.org">Subscribe</a> <a href="mailto:dev-unsubscribe@stormcrawler.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-stormcrawler/discussions">GitHub discussions</a>: for questions and general discussion.</li>
        <li><a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-stormcrawler/issues">GitHub issues</a>: for bug reports and feature requests. Please search the existing issues before creating new ones. If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, consider asking in GitHub discussions or the mailing list first.</li>
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    <p>With GitHub, the StormCrawler code is located in this <a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-stormcrawler" target="_blank">repository</a>. The website code is is in this <a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-stormcrawler-site" target="_blank">repository</a>.  links for GitHub discussions and issues above are related to the core repository. If you are aware of the right repository, then please use the discussions and issues for that repository.</p>

    <h2 id="code-of-conduct">Code of Conduct</h2>
    <p>Please see the Apache-wide <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct">Code of Conduct</a>.</p>

    <h2 id="committers">Committers</h2>
    <p>The current list of Apache StormCrawler committers can be found in the Apache <a href="https://people.apache.org/phonebook.html?podling=stormcrawler">Phonebook</a>.</p>

    <p>All code merges require approval from at least one StormCrawler committer. Most StormCrawler committers are also members of the PPMC. Releases require that at least three StormCrawler PPMC members approve the release.</p>

    <p>We are looking to build up the number of committers and PPMC members. We will invite people to join the team. This is based on meritocracy. Contributors who have become involved in the StormCrawler community and who have shown a good level of understanding of the StormCrawler code base will be considered. </p>

    <p>Code reviews and votes on releases can be made by anyone.</p>

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