Hi all, I wanted to introduce myself for those who don't know who I am and make a request to the more experienced members of the group. I've used HBase in the past before and, due to circumstances, I was prevented from contributing to the codebase. Now that doesn't apply to me anymore I'd like to start making some contributions (although I'm not actively working with HBase on a current project). I have found, unfortunately, that the relevant howto page on the wiki is quite out of date:
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HowToContribute Some issues that I see / things that I would like clarified include: 1. The use of ant - from what I understand this is no longer the case as maven has been introduced. As a result a number of the instructions are out of date. 2. Use of git - from what I gathered from trawling the hbase-dev list, a git repo is available. I'd prefer to use this approach as I think it is a better way to work (probably a number of you agree). I'd like to see a reference to the git repo here and perhaps some instructions on how to work with git in the hbase context (might help others in the future adopt git rather than svn). 3. The recent introduction of the use of Review Board for reviewing work. I can create a jira task for this if you like, but I just wanted to kick it around the group to see if there is anything else that should go on or any opinions on the above. Although I could probably do the task myself, I'd prefer if someone more experienced with the process would make the change. Cheers, Daniel Ploeg
