Hi Zach,
Great to hear from you!
The getting started guide is a good starting point:
https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/v/latest/start/running.html
https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/v/latest/start/blueprints.html
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The "learn more" section is very useful for explaining the concepts, and
for additional background info:
https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/learnmore/blueprint-tour.html
From https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org, you should also see the
documentation and info on how to contribute etc.
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In terms of quirks and docs, it will be excellent to get a list of what
you hit and where you think it can be improved.
One thing to note is that Brooklyn release 0.7.0-M2-incubating was a
"source only" Apache release. That means the tar.gz distro file was not
released.
You can either download source + build that [1], or you can use bleeding
edge 0.7.0-SNAPSHOT [2]. We are working on getting a 0.7.0 release soon,
so hopefully this is just a very temporary issue.
Aled
[1] https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/download/index.html
[2]
https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/v/0.7.0-SNAPSHOT/misc/download.html
On 02/07/2015 08:02, Zachary Jaffee wrote:
Hello,
I'm interested in getting started working on brooklyn and was wondering if
there is some type of "practice project" that I can do to get me up to
speed, and in tern understand the code base well enough to start
contributing. I've worked with other devOps products in the past, and am
somewhat familiar with deployment products and how they work on a low
level, particularly those that are of the more procedural/workflow style of
deployment tool.
So once again if anyone has any advice on how to get started I'd be
interested in hearing it, I should mention that I am familiar with all of
the languages used, but maybe not the particular way different packages and
projects are used, or how they work. Also, if you have any quirks about the
software that someone might not see off the bat, I can record them down now
too and make a document of all the different things a person should get to
know to get better acclimated to working on brooklyn.
Thanks in advanced,
Zach
