Thanks for the advice Dimitry. I’m already signed up on ASF jira. My handle is “nasimk”
Do I need to be a linear algebra expert and or math phd to contribute ? I have 10 plus years of computer programming experience. my background is comp sci. Khurrum > On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > PS You may also want to sign up with ASF Jira so we can assign issues to > yourself. > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Khurrum Nasim <khurrum.na...@useitc.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Dimirtry. >>> >>> I take a look at see where I can start pitching in. Do I need >>> contributor access ? how would I create feature branch of my work ? >>> >> >> Khurrum, >> >> you only need github account. What you need is to create mahout's master >> fork in your github space and keep it in sync, as possible, with master as >> you go (by doing regular pulls). That way you have the most chance of >> having least conflicts possible. >> >> At any point in time (I recommend at perhaps when you feel you are about >> 50 to 70% done or just need a code advice), you can create a github pull >> request to the apache/mahout master. Make sure to include MAHOUT-XXX issue >> in the head of the pull request, that way ASF will automatically propagate >> code comments to jira, and so all discussion can be done entirely on github. >> >> Again, if you take on a signficant contribution (such as a new numerical >> method contribution), I recommend to discuss the proposal on the @dev list >> >> thanks. >> >> >>> >>> Khurrum >>> >>>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Oh but of course! please do! >>>> >>>> You may work on any issue, this or any other of your choice, or even on >>> any >>>> new issue you can think of (for sizeable contributions it is >>> recommended to >>>> start discussion on the @dev list first though, to make sure to benefit >>>> from experience of others. Please file any new issue first to jira). >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:05 AM, shashi bushan dongur (JIRA) < >>>> j...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> [ >>>>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1788?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15218216#comment-15218216 >>>>> ] >>>>> >>>>> shashi bushan dongur commented on MAHOUT-1788: >>>>> ---------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> Hello. I would like to start contributing to mahout. Can I work on this >>>>> issue? >>>>> >>>>>> spark-itemsimilarity integration test script cleanup >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> Key: MAHOUT-1788 >>>>>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1788 >>>>>> Project: Mahout >>>>>> Issue Type: Improvement >>>>>> Components: cooccurrence >>>>>> Affects Versions: 0.11.0 >>>>>> Reporter: Pat Ferrel >>>>>> Assignee: Pat Ferrel >>>>>> Priority: Trivial >>>>>> Fix For: 1.0.0 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> binary release does not contain data for itemsimilarity tests, neith >>>>> binary nor source versions will run on a cluster unless data is hand >>> copied >>>>> to hdfs. >>>>>> Clean this up so it copies data if needed and the data is in both >>>>> versions. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA >>>>> (v6.3.4#6332) >>>>> >>> >>> >>
