+ CC to user@ On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Aayush, > > Nice to meet you! I've CC-ed your message to the user list. > > I am an aspiring GSoC 2012 student and came across WHIRR on ASF's Ideas >> page. What I would like to know is, does the WHIRR project as a whole take >> one student or does each WHIRR issue ( such as WHIRR 2XX, 3XX, 4XX, 5XX) >> take one student? >> > > This is the list of proposed Apache Whirr projects for GSoC 2012 > http://s.apache.org/apache-whirr-gsoc-2012 - one for each student. > Unfortunately we are lacking mentors now but I'm working on that. > > Also we are open to suggestions. What do you have in mind? Would you like > to work on an existing issue? Which one? > > >> Apart from that, I'm relatively new to WHIRR but I'm willing to >> participate as Java is my language of preference. So could you provide a >> slight help in getting started with understanding the code and debugging >> it? >> > > Start from the website [1] with "Whirr in 5 minutes" [2] and the "Quick > start guide" [3]. > > It should be easy to start a cluster on Rackspace or Amazon EC2 to get a > feeling of how things work. > > As you move forward I suggest that you should go through the following > presentations: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/Presentations > > setup a development environment: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/How+To+Contribute > > check JIRA to understand the work we are doing towards 0.7.1 & 0.8.0 (see > roadmap) > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR > > and maybe even try to provide a patch for some easy ones like: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-546 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-503 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-448 > > > [1] https://whirr.apache.org/ > [2] https://whirr.apache.org/docs/0.7.1/whirr-in-5-minutes.html > [3] https://whirr.apache.org/docs/0.7.1/quick-start-guide.html > > >> Regards >> Aayush Kothari >> > > Cheers, > > Andrei Savu >
