Great, thanks all! I'll poke around and see if I can find a way in that is most effective for me and for you all. Talk to you soon.
David On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Robert Dionne <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> > -- David W. Van Couvering http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com
