Hi Marco, Hi Robert, I thought a bit on how to start contributing to Castor yesterday evening. The first thing that came to my mind relates to docs and the experiences you made with Castor.
- Have you had any problems using Castor? - Did you miss anything in docs? As other users may have similar problems or miss the same things in docs it would be a good starting point to write a short howto about your solution. I also took a look for open issues that are not too difficult to start with. As I don't know yet what you are interested in you can choose some yourself from the following list. If you found other issues you like to work on looking at jira yourself, go ahead. CastorJDO http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-303 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-440 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1044 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1312 CastorXML http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-792 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-879 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1058 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1166 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1277 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1322 SourceGenerator http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1051 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1194 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1242 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1257 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1296 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1307 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1335 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1338 other Tools http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-822 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1096 Having said that I can only guess how difficult these issues are. Some of them may show up rather difficult and others may be quite simple or have been resolved with other changes since they have been reported. Regards Ralf Castor JDO, committer Marco Mistroni schrieb: > Hello, > > >>Do you have a feeling in what particular area you'd like to help out by >>contributing ? JDO or XML ? Or both ? > > > Well, I have used more XML that JDO, but anyway no particular preference > So I can get acquainted with code etc. > > > >>In general, we'd welcome any contribution of yours, irrespective of its >>nature. There's a few areas that come to my mind immediately that could >>need some additional attention with us approaching a 1.0 release, e.g. > > >>* HTML docs >>* adding new HOW-Tos >>* Code refactoring >>* Bug fixing > > > >>It all depends how 'literate' you are with the current code base, and how > > Well, not much indeed... I have used it from the 'user' point of view.... > But I think codebase / tests / docs will be a good starting point for me to > Get familiar with code. > I know - & sorry for that - , not sure if it is a good Idea willing to > Contribute without being very familiar with codebase, but I need something > Challenging to test my abilities, and best thing for me would be join > An opensource project & start to contribute or at least see how a real > System is designed etc.. > > > >>willing you are in terms of 'time and tears' .. ;-). > > > Tears.... of joy? :) > > >>In general, we (the >current committers) will be available to assist you >>with any problems you >have (using this mailing list or IRC). As a starting >>point, you might want >to familiarize you with e.g. the existing test cases >>(src/tests/jdo and >src/tests/xml), etc. > > > Ok, I think I'll start from there & from codebase..... > > >>Here's a few pointers: > > >>* CVS access: http://castor.org/cvs.html >>* Existing Jira issues: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR > > > Thanx... I'll let you know this eve on how far I got in getting > Cvs etc > > Thanx & regards > marco > > > > > > Other than that, please join us on the #castor IRC channel on > irc.codehaus.org if you have more questions. > > Regards > Werner > Castor JDO, technical lead > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Marco Mistroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Dienstag, 07. März 2006 15:00 >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [castor-user] castor / contributing >> >>Hello all, >> I think I have some spare time to dedicate/contribute >>to castor Project.. >>I have been using castor before - though I have never done >>any Advanced use of it other than xml2java and simple jdo - >>Beside getting latest version & getting familiar with it, >>Beside that, what is the entry-task for a wannabe-contributor? >>Javadocs? Would be fine with me >> >> >>If someone could point me out on how to start (cvs >>repositories etc), I'd >>Be willing to start asap.. >> >>Thanx and regards >> >> Marco >> >> >>------------------------------------------------- >>If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please >>send an empty message to the following address: >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please > send an empty message to the following address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please > send an empty message to the following address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------- -- Syscon Ingenieurbüro für Meß- und Datentechnik GmbH Ralf Joachim Raiffeisenstraße 11 D-72127 Kusterdingen Germany Tel. +49 7071 3690 52 Mobil: +49 173 9630135 Fax +49 7071 3690 98 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.syscon-world.de ------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please send an empty message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------
