You can also look for JIRAs with the "newbie" label, Eli's JIRA filter is handy here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12315566 I'd even refine it by looking for recent unresolved, unassigned JIRAs with this query: project in (HADOOP, MAPREDUCE, HDFS) AND labels = newbie AND status = Open AND assignee = EMPTY ORDER BY created DESC Best, Andrew On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:28 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > Sandy, > > Thanks for taking the time to give me some pointers. I'll take a look > and see where I can do the most damage. :) > > Thanks, > > James > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Sandy Ryza <sandy.r...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > In terms of areas of active development, there's still quite a bit to do > in > > MapReduce and YARN. ApplicationHistoryServer (YARN-321), Rolling Restart > > (YARN-666), and work-preserving preemption are all in their early stages. > > YARN in general could also still use some polish so there are probably a > > decent number of JIRAs to pick up in that area. I haven't contributed > very > > much to HDFS, so I don't have a ton of knowledge about what's going on > > there. > > > > Also, I've found that a good way to start contributing is to use the > > software and find things about it that bother you. > > > > Hope that helps, > > Sandy > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, James Carman < > ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > > > >> I would like to get started contributing to Hadoop. Does anyone have > >> any pointers on where to start digging in? I don't mean "look at > >> JIRAs and start submitting patches." I mean, which areas of the > >> project would be a good place to start for a beginner? > >> >
