Welcome, trust me, you will get all the help you need. Contributors doesn't show up that often, I am happy to assist in any way I can.
The trunk is currently in major upgrade mode to 3.0, where we are taking the "need to break package names" to put in all the other breakages in one go, but without too much actual changes. Once you get a hang for the basics, the easiest way to get started (from my experience) seems to be to either work on some new samples or create a new Entity Store. The good part of being a really small project is, that mistakes are never going to kill anyone. Especially pre-3.0, when all changes are in principle allowed. Once you start looking around, you might notice that most tests are not unit tests, but "feature tests", as the runtime starts up quickly (compared to regular Spring tests) enough to do that. This approach has allowed 3 major re-writes of the runtime (the implementation), without touching the test suite. If you have any suggestion on documentation improvements, please let us know. Cheers Niclas On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Nemeth Sandor <[email protected] > wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am a new subscriber to [email protected]. I found Zest via > https://helpwanted.apache.org/ and I would like to help. > > My background: I am working with Java for 8 years, with Java 8 for the last > 2 years, and currently work for a small german company and we use a bunch > of apache projects (commons, codec, io, tomcat, etc), but I have no > experience until now with Zest (but I am familiar with most of the concepts > listed on the website). > > Also this will be my very first open source project to contribute to, so I > would appreciate any help and guidance you provide me, and also I would be > very open to your feedback (both on the mailing list and in private) > > I will go through the source code (I have already read some of the issues > present in JIRA), but if you have any suggestions where to start, I would > be very much open to suggestions. > > Best regards, > Sandor Nemeth > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
