Java being my primary skill I'm grateful to Apache for the project otherwise I wouldn't have a project of choice to contribute to during this internship
Regards, Joshua Ouma On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 8:52 PM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > Kinda funny... days ago before the Outreachy projects went public, I was > concerned that nobody would care about this project because it appears to > be the only Java project in the Outreachy catalog for this season. It > seems Outreachy targets other skills. And, let's face it, it's not some > hot new feature. But this acted in my/our favor because candidates wanting > to do Java have only this project to choose. So now there seems to be > maybe a half dozen or so candidates; not sure. :-D It will be painful to > pick just one candidate. In retrospect, the whole V2 API maybe could have > been its own additional project. Ah well; there's next season for new > projects :-) > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:55 AM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I am registered as an ASF mentor for Outreachy (kinda like GSOC). I > > submitted a project proposal for SOLR-11872[1]. Thankfully, I'm seeing > > that a number of intern candidates are interested! Candidates must > > contribute to the project in some small way by November 4th, after which > I > > will select the best candidate to do SOLR-11872. At present, candidates > > are looking at "newdev" tasks and even volunteering. Now would be a > great > > time to consider if issues you create are fitting of "newdev". And of > > course, be supportive/helpful to contributors you've never seen/heard of > > before. I think the JAX-RS conversion should have particularly good > > "newdev" issues now that the infrastructure is in place. > > > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11872 > > "Refactor test infra to work with a managed SolrClient; ditch > TestHarness" > > > > ~ David Smiley > > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > >
