In this section, we will see how we can contribute to the HBase community and add our creativity and coding to HBase by fiddling with the HBase source code. The following links contain the lists of users who have contributed to the HBase project:

https://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

The best way to contribute is to go through the source code of HBase, and then apply it as a committer if you think you can add something useful to the HBase source. Development can be started using any Java IDE, and the source where we can get the HBase source code is:

git clone git://git.apache.org/hbase.git
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk hbase-core-trunk

A step-by-step development process is listed at http://hbase.apache.org/book/developer.html.