Hello everybody, I am all new to the idea of Open Source Development let alone ASF. It just seems a very nice idea to get involved in the development of an ASF project (and PDFBox is my chosen one), but I am not so sure what is the best way (or in fact any way) to get started.
So, I would much appreciate it, if someone who knows his way around would point me to some direction or give me some tips/guidelines on how to proceed with getting involved. I.e. in order to get more familiar with the project, I tried to look into issue PDFBOX-1228. Along the way I stumbled upon some (minor) things I believe could be improved: Typos or broken links or other errors in the JavaDocs or even a permission-bit being set the wrong way (according to my understanding) etc. I wonder what is the best way for me to report those things (users/dev mailing list, Jira, one e-mail or a separate for each issue etc) ? One last thing: While poking around ASF-projects in order to pick one for me to start getting involved, I noticed that other projects had "Get involved" sections on their website, with clear instructions and suggestions on the various ways one can get involved (for example Derby and Hadoop), which I found very useful. PDFBox is lacking such a sections (apart from a little remark on the "Mailing Lists" page: "If you like to participate in the development of Apache PDFBox, the Developer Mailing List is the place to be." - one has to try in order to find it and it is not very informative either). Considering the fact, I got really close to choosing another project, because of me not being able to find some "Get involved"-directions and I finally tried to apply the other projects' suggestions to PDFBox, I believe it would be nice to incorporate such a section (it doesn't have to be on the front-page, just somewhere anyone interested could find fairly easy). Thanks for all the responses (if any (-;) ! GK
