Dennis Kubes wrote:
I will say that it is difficult for people to understand how to get more
involved. I have been working with Nutch and Hadoop for almost a year
now on a daily basis and only now am I understanding how to contribute
through jira, etc. There needs to be more guidance in helping
developers contribute. For example if you want to develop a new piece
of function they do x, y, and z. Here is how to patch your system. If
you want to develop a patch then here are the steps.
The closest thing we have currently are the HowToContribute pages:
http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HowToContribute
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/HowToContribute
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/HowToContribute
These are not great, but they're a start. Are there parts that are
confusing? Do they assume too much? Are they missing things? If so,
please help to update these.
I note that the Nutch version is less evolved than the Lucene and Hadoop
versions.
Doug
