Hi Dishara, Congratulations you deserve it. Over the next few weeks you should get fully up to speed with Sling and the Sling community, in preparation for starting work in earnest on 17 June. Although I volunteered to mentor you and this project, all Apache projects have community at their core. Sling is no exception. We do everything here through discussion, thinking positive learning from the guidance of each other and looking forwards not backwards. Those of us who have been here a long time know and trust our fellow community members. We also know we learn by making mistakes. Thats what makes Apache so strong. Google has added this two week buffer explicitly to allow students to get to know the community they have become a part of.
I know you have already looked into the code base, but I would thoroughly recommend that you do some of the exercises on the website[1], and build a simple application, perhaps a photo sharing app (Slingstagram?), so that you get a real understanding of how Sling works. We do everything on the dev list only very, very rarely resorting to private emails or IM discussions. I am starting to break the primary rule of large lists, keeping each message short and to the point so others have the time to read it. Welcome to Sling, we are all here to help you. Best Regards Ian 1 http://sling.apache.org/documentation/tutorials-how-tos/46-line-blog.html On 29 May 2013 02:54, Dishara Wijewardana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am ecstatic that Apache Cassandra backend for Sling Accepted for GSoC > 2013. Thank you for all the support given as a community for this > proposal. I will do my best to finish this project in a high and do a good > contribution to Apache Sling. > > -- > Thanks > /Dishara >
