Hi, > I'm Mani Teja Chodapaneedi master student in Blekinge institute of > technology. i would like to contribute to your open source project.
Is there anything in particular you are interested in contributing? Or an area that interests you? > 1. What are the main challenges to acquire the knowledge I would need to > contribute to this project? It will depend on the area you want to work on, for instance the compilers are written in Java, the Flex SDK in ActionScript. If your interested in build system we have both ant and maven builds. > 2. What type of support is given to new contributors like me? We’ll answer questions and help you with any process / procedural issues. If you contribute patches and show merit we’ll make you a committer and you’ll get write access to the git repo. > 3. How long does it take in general to reach a level where one can > contribute to the project more independently? I don’t think there is one simple answer to this, for some areas people are going to be productive and independent in a very short time (a few weeks say) in other areas it may take many months. > 4. Once I have acquired the required knowledge, is there any other > difficulties that I should be aware of that may affect my engagement as a > contributor for this project? Nothing other than understand how the Apache way works [1] which will happen over time as you work on the project. I’d start by reading these [2][3]. Thanks, Justin 1. http://theapacheway.com 2. http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html 3. https://community.apache.org/contributors/
