Do you guys like the Wiki? like the Spark's: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark.
We can create a skeleton, create different pages for different internal components, and *gradually* fill it. (It's a history debt that I don't think some guy can spend just some days to finish it perfectly. Let's crowdsource it. :-) On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:04 PM, abdullah alamoudi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > In the August 2015 incubator report, the 3rd issue to address before > graduation is growing the AsterixDB community. > > Since we entered the incubator, at least two members wanted to join the > community and contribute only to end up disappearing. Getting acquainted > with the codebase seems like a difficult task for new comers and I think we > should make it a little bit easier. > > I know this is long overdue and someone promised in the ancient past to > prepare an entry document for new contributor (Who was it?). I am aware > that we all are busy addressing issues, working on new features, running > some experiments, writing a paper, etc. but we can still work towards this > in small steps. > > My suggestion is that someone create an outline of how that document will > be and then publish it in some location where we all have a chance to > contribute (Maybe the AsterixDB website in the documentation branch?). Once > we have that, whenever somebody spends some time in a new area of the code, > they should contribute to the document and we should eventually get there. > > > Cheers, > Amoudi, Abdullah. > -- ----------------- Best Regards Jianfeng Jia Ph.D. Candidate of Computer Science University of California, Irvine
