Thanks Randall, I will start working on your suggestions. It would be my pleasure to be a tiny part of such an effective community.
T‌hanks & Regards Lalit Kushwah On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Randall Leeds <rand...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:04 AM Lalit Kushwah < > lalit.kush...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > Hello, Lalit, and welcome! > > I am highly inspired by such a great community and team work. So I would > > like to contribute in making CouchDB ore strengthful. > > > > The CouchDB community inspired me to get involved and also to learn Erlang > about 9 years ago and I'm so glad it continues to do that. > > > > I am a Software Developer and new to Erlang. So can anyone of you please > > guide me that from where I can start? > > > > I have not been much involved in code of CouchDB in the past few years, but > I would love to help you get started. > > I suggest to work through some Erlang tutorials until you feel you have a > basic grasp of the language. The first part of the book "Concurrent > Programming in Erlang" seems to be available for free [1]. "Learn You Some > Erlang" [2] might be good, but I don't know for sure. Other people on this > list may have suggestions. > > Make sure you join the IRC or the Slack channel, whichever you prefer [3]. > That's a great way to get to know other people in the community and listen > to conversations about development. > > Start by building CouchDB from source to make sure you have all the tools > you need. Then, read recent commits or pull requests of other contributors > or pick one module at a time and study it to see how it works. When you > feel ready, ask for recommendations on small patches you can contribute, or > pick up a stale pull request that seems to be ignored and rescue it. Often, > there are small issues that no one has had time to fix yet, but are > friendly for new contributors. > > Don't hesitate to ask questions or to share patches in progress for > feedback and have fun! > > [1] http://erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf > [2] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ > [3] http://couchdb.apache.org/#chat >
