Hi Mårten, That is great to hear! We are always looking for contributors! Welcome to the project.
There are multiple ways to contribute on different levels. Some people have a specific need and need to develop something specific, let's say for example support for a new type of data format. In this case what we do is give them an "unsupported" module. This is basically just limited svn access to a single module in which they can develop their functionality in isolation, but at the same time come to know the geotools code base. An other popular way to contribute is via patches to open bugs. This is how most of the core developers have become core developers. They work through fixing some bugs and submit patches for the other core developers to review. After enough review has been, and some good patches have been contributed often a developer will gain the trust of project and become a core committer. Do you have an area of particular interest. Are you interested in rasters vs vectors, do you have a knowledge of coordinate reference systems, rendering, etc... Often people end up working on parts of the code base that they are personally interested in. All that said I would recommend giving our developers guide a read: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/Home And if you are looking for something to do there are lots of open bugs in the bug tracker: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT Scan through and see if anything catches you eye, and perhaps start working on your first patch :) Once again welcome and thanks for your interest in GeoTools! We all look forward to working with you :) -Justin Mårten Karlberg wrote: > Hello to all GeoTools developers! > > My name is Marten Karlberg and I would like to contribute some code to > GeoTools. I'm new to community based os-developing and wonder if anyone > on the dev-list could point me to a portion of code that needs to be > fixed, or a smaller feature that needs to be implemented? > > I'm a student at a GIS master program at Lund University, Sweden. I have > a bachelor degree in computer science and have coded in Java quite a bit > (even though I'm no expert). I'll do this first contribution as a part > of a course in open source GIS but I'd really like to continue > contributing code to this very fine os-project! > > Kind Regards > > Marten Karlberg > Sweden > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
