The Arrow project uses GitHub as a bug tracker. To report a bug, sign in to your GitHub account, navigate to GitHub issues and click on New issue .
To be assigned to an issue, add a comment "take" to that issue.
Before you create a new bug entry, we recommend you first search among existing Arrow issues in Jira or GitHub.
We conventionally prefix the issue title with the component name in brackets, such as "[C++][Python] Ensure no validity bitmap in UnionArray::SetData", so as to make lists more easy to navigate, and we'd be grateful if you did the same.
First create a GitHub issue as described above, selecting Bug Report or Enhancement Request. Then, submit your changes as a GitHub Pull Request. We'll ask you to prefix the pull request title with the GitHub issue number and the component name in brackets. (for example: "GH-14736: [C++][Python] Ensure no validity bitmap in UnionArray::SetData"). Respecting this convention makes it easier for us to process the backlog of submitted Pull Requests.
Any functionality change should have a GitHub issue opened. For minor changes that affect documentation, you do not need to open up a GitHub issue. Instead you can prefix the title of your PR with "MINOR: " if meets the following guidelines:
- Grammar, usage and spelling fixes that affect no more than 2 files
- Documentation updates affecting no more than 2 files and not more than 500 words.
We ask that all discussions about major changes in the codebase happen publicly on the arrow-dev mailing-list.
You can also ask on the mailing-list, see above.
Please read our development documentation or look through the New Contributor's Guide.