On May 26, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Shardul Bhatt wrote:
> Hi All, > > I am Shardul Bhatt, a Software Developer from India. > > I have used Lucene on a project and am keen to contribute to Lucene. > > I know it takes much more than just the desire to be able to contribute to > Open Source. At this point in time I am trying to figure out how to go about > it. Apparently the most widely accepted method is to use it and debug it, > using Eclipse, to understand how it all gels together. This method is > certainly good but the initial effort is huge and needs a lot of motivation > to hang on. http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/HowToContribute and http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute describe most of the things necessary to get started. > > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Alberto Bacchelli <[email protected]> > wrote: > Dear Lucene developers, > > I'm Alberto Bacchelli, a Ph.D. student in software engineering. > > We want to help new developers who join a new software system, and > we believe that a good first impression would attract more contributors. > > Imagine a new developer joining Lucene: > As a first step, he needs a high-level view of the system. > Then, and this is what we want to address, he needs to know > what the most important classes of the system are --the hotspots. > > > We'd like to find *automated* methods to suggest a newbie > which classes he should start to study/understand. > > > To find the best recommendation method, we must know > the important classes of the system, and you, > as the system developers, are the only ones who can > answer this question. > > If you agree to do so (and I really hope so :) ) > we will create a small questionnaire for you, > that will take less than 15 minutes to be completed. Can you just send the questionnaire to the list? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
