Dear people,
I am just re-learning Java (it's been a long time since I last used the
language) and an ex-student of mine (kinow) told me that there were many
projects hosted by Apache that were in need of contributors, especially
those that need some more domain-specific knowledge.
I figured out that commons-graph would be a good place to start and I am
just reading the code (and trying to figure what is infra-structure from
what is real code), but, while doing that, I produced 3 test cases for an
issue in JIRA (which was opened Simone Tripodi).
I sent the patches there, but kinow told me that the Apache-way is via
mailing lists (which I think is good, BTW). The issue in question is:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX-349
It is listed as Priority: Major and I guess that I can produce many more
(pathological or not) test cases and contribute back those tests.
Here is my original message to the bug tracker:
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| Hi there.
|
| Just to test the waters (and to learn some Java), I have implemented two
| simple test cases for Dijkstra's algorithm, essentially mimic'ing what was
| already done in the previous examples. Please, be gentle with me, as this is
| my first Java programming since the times of JDK1.1 (and I have a bunch of
| new syntax to catch up with).
`----
which was shortly followed up with:
,----
| Oh, just for the record, the patches that I sent are obviously in git's
| format-patch format.
|
| I have cloned the SVN repository as a git repository, since I have lots of
| difficulties with SVN, if that is of interest to any other members. I can
| host it under my github account, if that's desired (and I will probably do,
| since converting from SVN to git took way too many hours).
`----
Would anybody be interested in such contributions?
Thanks in advance,
Rogério Brito.
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