A nice idea might be for some of the committers to write a "Getting Started" guide for contributors. You could point to self-contained areas of the code, or bits that contributing to does not require too much pre-existing knowledge. Another idea is to have a JIRA field where you can flag the difficulty of the feature, so that people can choose "easy", "medium", or "hard" depending on experience with the codebase.
On 28 November 2013 10:34, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > It's really nice to hear from you and appreciate your contributions so far. > > Yes its definitely possible to work on components like load balancer in > isolation with the new message driven architecture. I will send a separate > mail describing how to setup the development environment for the load > balancer. > > At the moment we have list of items to be implemented in Stratos load > balancer. You could find the complete task list here [1]. > > 1. New functionality to expose load balancing statistics to a file or socket > (or both): > At the moment we have support for publishing load balancing statistics to a > Complex Event Processor but we may also need to publish them to a > file/socket for easy access. > > 2. New functionality to replicate state of the load balancer: > We need to implement a state replication functionality to be able to > replicate sessions to other load balancers in a cluster. > > More importantly if you have suggestions for improvements those could also > be discussed and implemented. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-97 > > Many Thanks > Imesh > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:20 PM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there something that can be done to introduce developers to smaller >> standalone parts of the code base? >> >> In my spare time (evenings, weekends, etc), I'm trying to understand the >> overall architecture and all of the components, but that is quite a lot of >> code to trawl through. It will be quite some time before I am really able >> to contribute. >> >> If I could focus on one smaller component, for example load balancer, then >> it will be much quicker for me to get up to speed and start contributing. >> >> Is it possible to work on components (like load balancer) in isolation? >> For example, is it possible to build and deploy the load balancer standalone >> or run it from eclipse without having to worry about the rest of the stratos >> codebase? >> > -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
