Heya Huyssen, sorry for being a little obtuse here, but you’ve stumbled on one of the shortcomings of the CouchDB project: it is not easy to get new contributors started.
We are aware of this and we plan to work on this soon-ish, but that won’t help you now ;) That said: CouchDB generally can be separated in three components: - The Erlang Core (https://github.com/apache/couchdb) - The JavaScript Test Suite (https://github.com/apache/couchdb/tree/master/test/javascript) - The Fauxton Web UI (HTML/CSS/JS: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton) And there are a few sub-projects: - couchdb-nano (a Node.js client): https://github.com/apache/couchdb-nano - couchdb-docker (Docker images): https://github.com/klaemo/docker-couchdb The Erlang Core requires knowledge in Erlang. If you are up for learning Erlang, I’d recommend to get started with http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content — it’s a great read and a fun language to learn. The JavaScript Test Suite requires knowledge in (drumroll): JavaScript, and a bit of how it is set up: In CouchDB master you can run it like this: (See INTSALL.Unix.md and README-DEV.rst to get started) ./configure -c --disable-fauxton --disable-docs make make javascript And you can run individual tests like this: ./configure -c --disable-fauxton --disable-docs make ./dev/run -n 1 --with-admin-party-please # new terminal window ./test/javascript/run testname The tests live in test/javascript/tests/*.js When you run `make javascript`, you might see some errors (ignore the attachment one), and tests marked with TODO, these would be worth diving into. For Fauxton, please see the README at: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton * * * In addition, there are a number of issues on our bug tracker that we’ve marked as beginner friendly: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1098?jql=project%20%3D%20COUCHDB%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20cf%5B12310270%5D%20%3D%20%22New%20Contributors%20Level%20(Easy)%22%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC (I hope this link works) In addition addition, there are many tickets with issue reports that have no comments on them yet. One useful thing to do would be to check if you can reproduce the issue, and work on a way to show how this can be reproduced. Hope this helps! Best Jan -- > On 18 Jul 2016, at 11:55, Zhang Huyssen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Harald, > > Thank you for your help. However, Where could I check those issues? Where > are the detail description? Please give me some more information about > them. Thanks a lot! > > Best, > Huyssen > > 2016-07-18 16:31 GMT+08:00 Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]>: > >> Heya Harald, >> >> could you do a quick write up on how to run the tests? Not sure this would >> be useful without, for a new contributor. >> >> Also, please use the latest build from >> http://couchdb.apache.org/release-candidate/2.0/ or git master, thanks! :) >> >> Best >> Jan >> -- >> >> >> >>> On 18 Jul 2016, at 08:02, Harald Kisch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Huyssen, >>> >>> there are some Issues with the JavaScript Tests in the Source Code at >>> >> https://home.apache.org/~jan/couchdb/2.0/RC/apache-couchdb-2.0.0-92c95de.tar.gz >>> You can try to fix them. >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> Harald >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Zhang Huyssen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey there, I'm new to this community and want to get involved into >> couchdb. >>>> Where should I start and what should do next? I have some knowlede >> about js >>>> and Java, please give me some information about the issue I could work >>>> with! Thank you very much! >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Huyssen >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> >>> Dipl.-Inf. Harald R. Kisch >>> >>> Falkenstraße 19C >>> 81541 München >>> Germany >>> >>> Mobil DE: +49 (0) 176 56 58 58 38 >>> >>> Skype: harald.kisch >>> Mail: [email protected] >> >> -- >> Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: >> https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ >> >> -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
