Additional information and resources#

On this page we have listed resources that may be relevant or useful for contributors who want to learn more about different parts of Apache Arrow.

Glossary#

List of common terms in Apache Arrow project with a short description can be found in the glossary.

Additional information#

• GitHub Actions

  GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Apache Arrow has a set of workflows that run via GitHub Actions to build and test every pull request that is opened, merged, etc.

  • Apache Arrow Actions on GitHub

  • Location of the workflows in Arrow: arrow/.github/workflows/

  • GitHub Documentation on GitHub Actions

• Nightly builds

  It is possible to install the Arrow R package from the nightly builds which are daily development builds of the R package and are not the official releases. See more on the Install R package article.

• Apache Arrow releases

Other resources#

GitHub

• GitHub docs: Fork a repo

• GitHub: Creating a pull request from a fork

Contributing

• Contributing to Apache Arrow

• Arrow R Developer Guide

Reproducible examples:

• Tidyverse: Make a reprex

• Craft Minimal Bug Reports by Matthew Rocklin

Recommended references#

• Slatkin, Brett, Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2019

• Stroustrup, Bjarne, A Tour of C++ (Second edition), Addison-Wesley, 2018

• Wickham, Hadley, R Packages: Organize, Test, Document, and Share Your Code

• Wickham, Hadley, Advanced R