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