Hi Sam A great way to contribute to Spark is to help answer user questions on the user@spark.apache.org mailing list or on StackOverflow.
2017-03-20 11:50 GMT+08:00 Nick Pentreath <nick.pentre...@gmail.com>: > If you have experience and interest in Python then PySpark is a good area > to look into. > > Yes, adding things like tests & documentation is a good starting point. > Start out relatively small and go from there. Adding new wrappers to python > for ML is useful for slightly larger tasks. > > > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 at 02:39, Sam Elamin <hussam.ela...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I would like to start contributing to Spark if possible, its an amazing >> technology and I would love to get involved >> >> >> The contributing page <http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html> states >> this "consult the list of starter tasks in JIRA, or ask the >> user@spark.apache.org mailing list." >> >> >> Can anyone guide me on where is best to start? What are these "starter >> tasks"? >> >> I was thinking adding tests would be a good place to begin when dealing >> with any new code base, perhaps to Pyspark since Scala seems a bit more >> stable >> >> >> Also - if at all possible - I would really appreciate if any of the >> contributors or PMC members would be willing to mentor or guide me in this. >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! >> >> >> Regards >> Sam >> >> >>
