Hi Aaron, Welcome! I'm not aware of any official mentorship program, so for now, feel free to bombard the list. :-) Here is some documentation on the contribution process. It's best to check if the information you need is here before emailing the list:
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute Also, if you have questions about a specific sub-project, then I suggest emailing that sub-project's dev list (hdfs-dev, mapreduce-dev, or yarn-dev). Chris Nauroth Hortonworks http://hortonworks.com/ On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Aaron Loyd <mra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > I would like to start contributing to Hadoop and would like to know if > there is a mentor program? I would prefer to ping just one person rather > than bombarding this list with stupid questions. > > Thanks, > Aaron L. >