There's an excellent book called "Code Reading" that could help you make
sense of it.
My advice is to figure out first how to:
(a) build using ant, outside of Eclipse or any IDE
(b) run the tests using ant, outside of Eclipse or any IDE
(c) start a server with custom configuration, outside of
Welcome! Thanks for wanting to contribute. Usually people contribute out
of necessity to improve or fix something for a real project. That helps
focus one's self on something and establish a goal. Since that isn't the
case for you, I suggest looking through our JIRA issues tagged "newdev":
Good Morning ,
I am a young engineer looking to join and contribute to the project .However ,
I got stuck on the overwhelming docs and thousands of lines of code .
can anyone please give me advice on how to understand the project and
contribute effectively ,?
Thanks
Sincerely ,