Hi, Thanks to all. I will follow your helpful advice. It is going to take a while to get to contribute for real, but there are no obvious shortcuts with a project this size and complexity.
Regards, Andres On 3/22/10, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrés Arribas ha scritto: > > > Hi all, > > > > My question is simple: is there any part of the geoserver project a > newcomer with little experience in java might be able to contribute to? > > > > First off, read the developer guide: > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/ > and maybe also the old one: > http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/Developers+Guide > > Maybe read some introductory material to Spring dependency injection > and Maven. > > If you don't have a specific objective, I'd say, look around the the > issue tracker. This could be a decent starting point: > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+GEOS+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%222.0.2%22+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+ORDER+BY+due+ASC%2C+priority+DESC%2C+created+ASC > > Pick an issue that seems like it could interest you. And then try to piece > things together, understand how GeoServer classes work, run > GeoServer, using the Start.java, in the debugger and step through > the code. > > No doubt you'll start finding holes in the documentation, and at > that point you can start contributing back improvements javadocs > or to the developer guide, we can review and then commit. > > Solving the first issue might take a while, but don't get frustrated, > GeoServer is big and takes time to pick it up. Docs improvement > will be appreciated and you're in the best position to notice > missing stuff that we just take for granted. > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
