What Michael said. I would say one thing you may want to do to do, in order to get familiar with the project, is look over the upcoming 2.9.4g release and try to evaluate it for correctness. This will expose you to a lot of the important bits from the committer's perspective. Building/testing/packaging/documentation/licenses/ASF process/etc. It will also expose you to what the current state of the project is. Perhaps you could assemble release notes, have a look at our online documentation and see what can be improved, update the website/wiki, etc..
IIRC, there's a lot of work to do in the Contrib libraries for 3.0.3 release. And if you didn't get the gist from Michael's tone of voice.. while we care a lot about getting code done (and done right), and keeping the project moving along, we're pretty informal around here. So, jump in where ever you feel comfortable and don't be shy. Thanks, Troy On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Michael Herndon <mhern...@wickedsoftware.net> wrote: >> Where would my effort best go? > > My advice is to play to strengths or work on things that seem interesting > or challenging to you. > > Looking through the tickets on jira is a good place to start. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENENET > > Look at recent threads on the mailing lists. > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-lucene-net-dev/ > > Another option is to pair with a committer looking for help on something in > particular in order to get it done. > ( you have to admit this was a beautifully placed segway/opener for > committers to jump in. ;) ). > >> What are we currently working on? > > 10+ mana points for using the word "we". > > There is a push to get 2.9.4g released and to work on porting 3.0.3 in > trunk. > >> Can I join this mailing list? > > Anyone is welcome to join the mailing list, unless it's your pet goldfish. > They're kinda shady. > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Sean Newham > <sean.new...@grantadesign.com>wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I want to help port Lucene.net. I'm starting to work with it at work (in >> fact my first job here was to port spellchecker from 3.5.3 to >> lucene.net2.3.2 (please don't ask)) and I want to help make it better. >> Questions: >> Where would my effort best go? >> What are we currently working on? >> Can I join this mailing list? >> >> Best wishes, >> Sean >> ps. My "home" email is seansevilt...@gmail.com and I might use this to >> email in. >> >>
