Hi Dan, Thanks a lot for the information. I will pick up few JIRAs to start with and then later will take responsibility of a new feature.
Regards, John On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > Great to hear that you're interested! > > There's a couple of different ways that you can contribute: > > 1. the "usual" way is to start contributing patches to existing JIRAs, or > to raise new JIRAs for new features and contribute that new feature as a > patch. After a little while of doing this, the community will take a vote > as to whether to grant you commiter access. > > 2. alternatively, you could start working on new contributions through the > apache-extras.org site [1], where we have a (currently empty) subproject > isis-extras [2]. The bar for contributing to the isis-extras project is > much lower: I can grant you commit access there immediately. Then, you can > start work on something, and later on join the project "proper" if we accept > the isis-extras code as a donation and vote you in. > > In terms of things to get started on, the first thing is to set up your > development environment, as outlined in [3] or [4]. Then, you can either: > a) have a look at some of the JIRAs to see if any look like ones you could > work on. > b) think about a new component you might like to work on: > - a new viewer (a big job; see [6] on my blog for an idea of what this > takes to do) > - a new security implementation > - a new programming model for another language, eg Scala, Fantom or Go > - a new profile store > c) enhance an existing component: eg > - JSON support for the Restful viewer > - BDD support for a new framework, eg Cucumber > > Hope that's of some use, > > Cheers > Dan > > [1] http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org > [2] http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/isis-extras/ > [3] > http://incubator.apache.org/isis/docbkx/html/guide/isis-contributors-guide.html > [4] > http://incubator.apache.org/isis/docbkx/pdf/isis-contributors-guide.pdf > [5] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:openissues-panel > [6] http://danhaywood.com/resources/viewer-stories/ > > > On 07/03/2011 22:06, john pradeep wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am very much interested to contribute to ISIS, I Just started to go >> through the documentations available. meanwhile, any tips/advice would be >> much appreciated. >> >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >>
