On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 14:01, Mike Coolin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Randall, > > My Jira user name is mcoolin, that who I am on as in IRC. > > Please add me to the wiki editor list. > Done! Have at it! > > Thanks Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Randall Leeds > Sent: 03/16/12 11:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Couchdb > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:37, Mike Coolin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Been doing alot of reading and experimenting with couchdb lately > and will > be using it in a few of my upcoming projects. > > I must say I > find the project exciting and unique from any other > offerings. For me it > seems like the perfect fit. > > I've also been reading and listening about > the couchdb and couchbase > confusion, I have to say that initially it was > confusing but a little > deeper reading of both web sies it was obvious at > least to me these are > differing products. > Great. I'm glad to hear it! > Welcome! > > The couchDB website and wiki do need a refreshing, and some > indication of > direction would be nice to. I find that some of the new > feature in 1.2 when > I found them could be very exciting. > It sounds like > Noah has something up his sleeve for a simultaneous website refresh with > the 1.2 release. I think we just resolved the final bug report blocking the > next vote, so we're moving on > that. > > I've been looking through the source code getting a better > understanding > of how things work and learning erlang. Would love to know > how I could help > out on this project. > > My two cents > Mike > As you > pointed out, the wiki is always in need of love. If you sign up and reply > with your user name, I can add you to the contributor group so that you can > make edits. Unfortunately, we got tired of reverting spam so we have this > (very simple) barrier. Another way to get started in the code is to check > out the unresolved issues. Currently we categorize the issues by > approximate skill level and/or code base familiarity. Here are the open > issues marked for new contributors (warning: long URL): > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+COUCHDB+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+AND+%22Skill+Level%22+%3D+%22New+Contributors+Level+%28Easy%29%22+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC%2C+key+DESCIf > you submit patches for any of those issues I will eagerly > and happily review them. And of course, join us in #couchdb and/or > #couchdb-dev on freenode and introduce yourself if you haven't yet. -Randall >
