Want to contribute to Cassandra but don't know where to start?
For the first time, we'll be running a bootcamp for new Cassandra
contributors immediately after the Cassandra Summit this September.
This is NOT a projectors-and-powerpoint conference. The best way to
learn a new project is to hack on it, and that's what we'll be doing.
We won't be throwing you in the deep end. Actually, we will, but
we'll give you some pointers on swimming technique first. Friday
morning will cover overviews of different areas of the Cassandra
storage engine and query processing. Then Friday afternoon we'll have
everyone working on a single LHF ("low hanging fruit") ticket as a
warm up. Saturday we'll throw open for working on any Cassandra
ticket individually or in groups. Both days, we'll have Cassandra
committers circulating the room to answer questions and get you
un-stuck.
Attendance is free, but to make sure we can give people individual
attention as needed, we're limiting this to 40 attendees. We also
have some prerequisites in the interest of getting the most out of our
time together:
- Have a strong core Java background including familiarity with
java.util.concurrent
- Bring a laptop with the Cassandra source checked out and ready to
run in your IDE of choice (see
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HowToContribute for links to
instructions for Eclipse and Intellij). We will NOT be covering this
during the boot camp, so come prepared.
- Set up an Apache Cassandra JIRA account ahead of time
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA).
- Read the Dynamo and Annotated Cassandra papers ahead of
time (http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/,
http://www.datastax.com/documentation/articles/cassandra/cassandrathenandnow.html)
- Browse the low-hanging fruit tickets
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%2012310865%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20lhf%20AND%20status%20!%3D%20resolved)
and have an idea of what you want to work on in day 2.
Apply at http://learn.datastax.com/CassandraSummitBootcampApplication.html
--
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
@spyced
