+1, great information Markus. And yes, Roger, contribute away! We'd love to have you as part of the community! The ASF is a meritocracy [1], so it won't go un-noticed that's for sure :-)
Cheers, Chris [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Markus Jelsma wrote: > 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
