Howdy! Awesome to have you on board. As to getting started. Building and playing with it are both good steps. So what I would do is to set it up for some nominal use. And then, aything you notice and don't like, report as a bug. :)
--Ari On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ahmed Fathalla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > I have got the Chukwa code from the apache SVN repository and > successfully built it using the ant script. I have also taken a look at > JIRA, any suggestion what the next step would be for me now? > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Ahmed Fathalla <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Ari, >> Thanks for your email. I work as a Software Support >> Engineer for IBM based in Cairo, Egypt. I mainly support customer's using >> IBM AIX Operating System and IBM's clustering and backup solutions. >> Academically, I have Bachelor and Master degrees from the Computer Science >> department at the American University in Cairo. >> >> I he have been following Hadoop for some time now, and I am really >> interested in contributing to it. I am especially excited about Chukwa as it >> matches some stuff I have worked with in the past. I will look at JIRA but I >> am counting on your help to get to speed with Chukwa as I am not an >> experienced Open Source developer. >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Ariel Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Howdy! >>> >>> A good place to start is the JIRA system: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CHUKWA >>> JIRA has the authoritative list of what bugs/feature requests are >>> open, and what changes have recently been made to the project. >>> >>> Can you say a bit more about your background, and what you want to do >>> with Chukwa? >>> >>> --Ari >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ahmed Fathalla <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > I have read about the Chukwa project and would like to >>> > contribute. I have checked out the project's wiki, but can someone >>> provide a >>> > concise set of steps on how to get up to date with the latest project >>> > developments and start contributing to the project? >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Ahmed Fathalla >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ari Rabkin [email protected] >>> UC Berkeley Computer Science Department >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ahmed Fathalla >> > > > > -- > Ahmed Fathalla > -- Ari Rabkin [email protected] UC Berkeley Computer Science Department
