http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Development
On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Damien Katz wrote:
Hi Dave. Sorry about the layoff. That sucks. :(
The best way to get involved is to hang out and participate here on
the mailing lists. Also the wiki has a lot of information, and not
all of it accurate or up to date, so a good way to get started and
to help the community is to use the wiki docs yourself and actively
update anything that is wrong or confusing or could just be worded
better. Documentation improvements are a big help.
As far as getting started hacking on the source, I thought we had a
page on the wiki for how to get started hacking, but I can't find
it now. Anyone else got pointers?
-Damien
On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:27 AM, David Van Couvering wrote:
Hello. I've been following CouchDB from the sidelines for a while
but
haven't been able to put much time into it.
Recently, however, Sun laid me off, and I thought this would be a
good
opportunity to get a little more engaged.
No better way, IMHO, than to help out with the project. FYI, I'm
already a
committer to Apache Derby, although I haven't been active there in
the past
few years.
I was looking at your road map and it looked like you want to get
a lot of
documentation written. I was thinking that would be a great way
for me to
start learning CouchDB. Is there a specific document that you
would like to
me to try my hand at? Also, what are your processes, technologies
and
standards around documentation?
I can also start poking around at your bug list and perhaps offer
some
patches to get my feet wet. Is there anything in particular that
you would
like someone to focus on? I don't have an Erlang background,
although I'm
interested in learning. My background is server-side Java and
databases,
for the most part.
I look forward to hearing from you. Meanwhile I'll try to get a
build going
and see how that goes.
All the best,
David
--
David W. Van Couvering
http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com
