I personally would start off with a bug in an area that you are interested in.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20in%20%28HADOOP%2C%20MA PREDUCE%2C%20HDFS%2C%20YARN%29%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20type%20% 3D%20Bug%20AND%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20ASC Is a JIRA query of bugs that are in Hadoop core. Once you feel comfortable changing the code and going through the entire process then you can start looking at bigger things. Also be aware that committers some times get busy with other things. If your patch is ready for review and no one starts looking at it ping the the -dev mailing list associated with the ticket and ask for someone to take a look at it. --Bobby On 3/5/13 10:01 AM, "VENKAT KAUSHIK" <higgsm...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, >I am following the instructions on >HowToContribute wiki to get started with >some of the tasks listed (test/research). > >Where is a good place to start contributing - test or research projects? >I would like to choose something small and under represented. Please >let me know. > >Thanks, >Venkat > >-- >========================================================= >Venkatesh Kaushik >Research Associate > >University of Arizona ATLAS Experiment@CERN >Office: PAS 334 40-1-C11 >Tucson, Arizona Genève, Switzerland >Tel: +1 520 626 7042 +41 22 76 79137 >ven...@physics.arizona.edu venkat.kaus...@cern.ch > http://atlas.physics.arizona.edu/~venkat >=========================================================
