Thanks for the pointers, I'm excited to get started. On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Aled Sage <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > --- > 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. > > --- > 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 >> >> > -- Zach Jaffee B.S. Computer Science Case Western Reserve University Class of 2017 Operations Director | WRUW FM 91.1 Cleveland Secretary | Recruitment Chair | Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity (917) 881-0646 github.com/ZJaffee
