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?
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