Hi Roger, Contribution is highly appreciated whether it's code, testing, documentation. The wiki [1] has a section dedicated to development and should aid in the first steps. Then there's Jira [2] where you can find some issues that should become part of Nutch 1.4.
I'd recommend setting up a test environment (preferrably on Hadoop) and begin downloading the internet. It's not easy and there are many pitfalls but at least it helps to come up with improvements to Nutch, bugs or other things. Once you start using it a lot, you'll get questions, and questions lead to answers and hopefully patches ;) Cheers, [1]: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/#Nutch_Development [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH/fixforversion/12316519 > Hello everyone, > > I read somewhere that nutch is a little short on contributors and was > thinking of helping out but not sure where to begin. > > I think nutch is a great tool and would like to help make it even better, I > would love to get involved in the project, > but I've never contributed to an apache project and don't want to start > without a little direction (if possible). If someone > could point me to an issue that would get me familiar with the nutch source > while providing the project value I'd really appreciate it. > > Thanks.
