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Contributing Guidelines

Introduction

mongo-perl-driver is the official client-side driver for talking to MongoDB with Perl. It is free software released under the Apache 2.0 license and available on CPAN under the distribution name MongoDB.

How to Contribute

The code for mongo-perl-driver is hosted on GitHub at:

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-perl-driver/

If you would like to contribute code, documentation, tests, or bugfixes, follow these steps:

  1. Fork the project on GitHub.
  2. Clone the fork to your local machine.
  3. Make your changes and push them back up to your GitHub account.
  4. Send a "pull request" with a brief description of your changes, and a link to a JIRA ticket if there is one. Make sure your target your pull request to the latest development branch, not the master branch. The development branches are named in the format version-X.YYY.

If you are unfamiliar with GitHub, start with their excellent documentation here:

https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo