On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Yantra Manav <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex and Kalle,
>      Do I need to have any special skills (E.g. JDO, ORM, etc) to
> contribute to the core packages?

No. Whatever you are missing, you'll pick up on the way.

Kalle


> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Alex Salazar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yantra!
>>
>> Welcome to the project-- we're happy to hear that you're interested in
>> contributing.
>>
>> There are a few easy ways to help.
>>
>> 1. Identify areas in the documentation (Website or Javadocs) that need
>> improvements or need to be created and submit your contributions to the
>> mailing list.
>>
>> 2. Go into the Issue tracker and try to create bug patches while you
>> get comfortable with the code.  As you become more comfortable you can and
>> should tackle new features and larger improvements.  You can submit your
>> patches to the mailing list.
>>
>> Also, we have this documentation on "how to contribute"
>> http://shiro.apache.org/how-to-contribute.html
>> Any feedback you have on that document would be incredibly helpful.
>>
>> Hope this helps Yantra and welcome again to the project,
>>
>> Alex Salazar
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Kalle Korhonen
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>> > Hey Yanta, yes absolutely, we always are. Start by contributing on the
>> > mailing lists and submitting patches.
>> >
>> > Kalle
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Yantra Manav <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >    I am a Java programmer interested in contributing to Apache Shiro.
>> Are
>> > > you guys looking for contributors?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Yantra Manav
>> > >
>> >
>>
>

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