On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Ah.. yes... I've seen something similar in Apache Derby too (AFAIR a flag like 'beginner'). Thanks for the suggestion Noah. > > 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 > -- Best Regards, Nirmal Nirmal Fernando. PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
