Ok, I've made some changes to the wiki. If someone could please review it that would be great.
Jira item: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2607 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Daniel, > > Good points on all of the below - you're right that it's out of date. If > you > want to make a first pass at updating it, that would be a great help. > Otherwise hopefully someone can get to updating the page this week. > > Regarding git, see http://git.apache.org/ -- we're just using those > mirrors > for our internal development. All patches eventually get committed to svn > (which mirrors to git) > > -Todd > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Daniel Ploeg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 on the wiki is quite out of date: 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 > > > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera >
