Can someone help me setup a build environment for Bukkit/CraftBukkit

I'd like to help with the development of Bukkit/CraftBukkit, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how github works, and how to properly setup a build environment.

I'm good with programming, not so good at reading huge pages of instructions and configuring multiple tools to work in synergy.

 

Go the easy way, download the latest build of bukkit and craftbukkit, get NetBeans, create a new Project and add both jars as dependencies...done.

 

don't need craftbukkit as one of the jars unless you are digging into internals (i only use bukkit for development)

 

I'm not developing a plugin, I want to work on the actual server. I have a bug fix ready if i could figure out how to properly use github, and do a push request.

 

oh, never mind then, don't know either (as i haven't used git very much)

 

unless you have been given access rights then I don't believe you can push to Bukkit's github repository.
--- merged: Mar 1, 2011 8:11 PM ---
just as a follow-up, you can see this thread for help in setting up a build environment. While that pom points to my personal repository I set up, the bukkit and craftbukkit poms points to public repositories of theirs and the maven commands will work properly.