Developers
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### From GlusterDocumentation

Contributing to the Gluster community
-------------------------------------

Are you itching to send in patches and participate as a developer in the
Gluster community? Here are a number of starting points for getting
involved. We don't require a signed contributor license agreement or
copyright assignment, but we do require a "signed-off-by" line on each
code check-in.

-   [License
    Change](http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/glusterfs-license-change/) -
    we recently changed the client library code to a dual license under
    the GPL v2 and the LGPL v3 or later
-   [GlusterFS Coding Standards](./coding-standard.md)

Developing
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-   [Language Bindings](./Language Bindings.md) - Connect to
    GlusterFS using various language bindings

Adding File operations
----------------------

-   [Steps to be followed when adding a new FOP to GlusterFS ](./adding-fops.md)

Automatic File Replication
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-   [Cluster/afr translator](./afr.md)
-   [History of Locking in AFR](./afr-locks-evolution.md)
-   [Self heal Daemon](./afr-self-heal-daemon.md)

Data Structures
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-   [inode data structure](./datastructure-inode.md)
-   [iobuf data structure](./datastructure-iobuf.md)
-   [mem-pool data structure](./datastructure-mem-pool.md)

Find the gfapi symbol versions [here](./gfapi-symbol-versions.md)

Daemon Management Framework
---------------------------

-   [How to introduce new daemons using daemon management framework](./daemon-management-framework.md)

Translators
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-   [Block Device Tanslator](./bd-xlator.md)
-   [Performance/write-Behind Translator](./write-behind.md)
-   [Translator Development](./translator-development.md)
-   [Storage/posix Translator](./posix.md)
-   [Compression translator](./network_compression.md)

Testing/Debugging
-----------------

-   [Unit Tests in GlusterFS](./unittest.md)
-   [Using the Gluster Test
    Framework](./Using Gluster Test Framework.md) - Step by
    step instructions for running the Gluster Test Framework
-   [Coredump Analysis](./coredump-analysis.md) - Steps to analize coredumps generated by regression machines.

Release Process
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-   [Versioning](./versioning.md)