Ahmed,
Thanks for reaching, it'll be great to have you involved in the project!
Apache OFBiz is a community driven software project. What you're
talking about here implies a central organization that drives the
project and could make such assignments. Fortunately (otherwise OFBiz
would not be what it is today) such a central organization that can
make assignments does not exist. In other words, there is no one that
could assign a mentor for you because no one in the organization has
authority over any of the committers to make them do things.
You could certainly send out an open request and ask for any of the
committers to volunteer to be a mentor for you. However, please
understand that you are asking someone to do something for free, so at
least please define what you would like a mentor to do for you.
The normal way of going about this is to interact with the community.
For some ideas about how to do this effectively please read my blog
post on the topic:
http://osofbiz.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-source-community-collaboration.html
For this particular email it seems like you have one question. If you
go into more detail about that question instead of about why you think
others should help you with it, or trying to get more of a commitment
for regular help, then your chances of getting it answered will be
better.
What did you click on that resulted in this error message, or what
were you trying to do? If you were trying to assign the issue to
yourself, you don't have to do that in order to work on it, just drop
in a comment and start working. If you have questions or thoughts and
would like to discuss it, send a message to the dev mailing list.
Eventually you'll need to work with a committer to actually get your
changes into SVN, and that person is basically a volunteer mentor for
that particular issue and they are the ones who will be assigned to
the issue. Your uploads/patches and comments will all have your name
on it, and you should be credited in the commit log as well. When we
are looking for new committers (most of what the PMC does) this is
exactly what we look at, so if you want to become a committer then
this is just the sort of activity you want to get involved in.
And of course, please send any other questions you have (with as much
detail and background as possible!) right here in the future. I look
forward to hearing more from you.
-David
On Jul 27, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Ahmed Dini wrote:
Hello Everyone.
First of all, I would like congratulate everyone involved in the
development
and maintenance of Ofbiz project for the wonderful Job done so far.
Although, I have not contributed to the project yet, I have always
been a
great fan of Obiz. I have been learning about Ofbiz since my final
year
project at University about a year and half a go as I have chosen it
for my
project which was about ERP solutions. I have gone through the entire
tutorial I could find and also bought and studied the advanced
framework
tutorials by David.
Now I am ready to participate in the development of Ofbiz project. I
have
read the Ofbiz Contributors Best Practice and yet I feel I might
mess up
things. Just a fear of starting. I know Ofbiz contributors have
their own
tight schedules and problems but I think to bring new contributors
on board,
it would be a good Idea if every new contributor could be assigned a
committer or an experienced contributor as a mentor until the new
contributor is confident enough to work on his/her own.
The advantage is the assigned committer or the experienced
contributor can
follow closely the growing experience and capabilities of the new
contributor, assign them Jira issues they know the new contributor
can fix.
A lot of people including me feel comfortable in working under
guidance
particularly when trying new things especially if they are new
graduates or
have not commercial experience.
Please let me know if you have a quick way I can get started. Under
WorkLog
in my Jira account, it says
You don't have permission to work on this issue for every Jira Issue
I open
no matter what status it is in. Does that mean I can't do anything
to any
Issue, also can I assign an Issue to myself?
Regards,
Ahmed
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