Hey John, great to see your intrest in helping lucene to move forward. Its an amazing time to get started as we are moving very quickly development wise right now. To get started it might be the easiest if you get familiar with how we work and how apache works. The Contribution Guide (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/HowToContribute) might be a very good place to start from. You should have a JIRA account and a working dev environment to run tests etc. - don't hesitate to check out the latest trunk or one of the branches if you wanna work on one of those. We currently have 3 branches with active development side by side with the trunk: Under http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/ you find 5 subfolders
branch_3x/ - a branch that maintains compatibility with 3.x releases and is the place for backporting importent and yet compatible features to the 3.x versions. bulkpostings/ - Bulkreading support for postinglists see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2723 docvalues/ - Column Stride fields, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2186 realtime_search/ - Realtime search branch, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2324 under http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk you find the latest trunk sources. It might be a good idea to check those out and run a "ant clean test" and see if it build and tests successful. Once you are set up its up to you to fix bugs if you find one, you don't need a mentor - once you open an issue you should get attention from one of the committers and / or one of the other contributors who works with you towards a committable patch. Don't hesitate to ask any further questions. Simon 2011/1/1 John Koumarelas <[email protected]>: > First of all Happy new year to everyone in Lucene! > > I would like to know, who should i ask if i want to get involved with the > project (e.g. Find/Fix bugs etc.)? Should i search for a mentor, or should i > just try to fix bugs from the list by myself? > > Thank you for your time, > > John Koumarelas > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
