Hi! Thank you for your advice! I'm going to work on building it locally today, and I'll get back to you if I have any trouble along the way.
Thanks again, Robert K On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM Keith Turner <ke...@deenlo.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM Robert Kurc <robertak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I am a high-school student who is interested in contributing to the > > Accumulo project, but I'm not entirely sure where to start. Would anyone > be > > willing to help? > > > > I can try to help. A good first step towards contributing to any open > source project is getting it to build locally. Would work through the > following steps to get Accumulo to build locally. > > 1. Get a linux development environment setup. > 2. Install openjdk 17 or greater > 3. Install Apache Maven > 4. Install git > 5. Clone the accumulo project to your linux machine using git > 6. Run "mvn clean package -DskipTest" to build > > Then after that can get an ide setup like intellij or eclipse and import > the project, make a change, and then run some tests. After that is all > sorted we can help you find a suitable issue to get started working on for > a pull request. > > Feel free to ask questions about any problems you have with the steps above > here or in slack[1]. > > [1]: https://accumulo.apache.org/contact-us/#slack > > > > > Thank you so much, > > Robert K > > >
