I mostly thank you all for your replies!
I like developing most of all and this is my main target! I don't
really know where to start from, because all aspects seam so exciting and
interesting xD. I think I would start by setting up Geronimo and get busy with
GERONIMO-5729 right after.
My problem however is that I am new all these issues regarding the
community and I am not sure whom I'm supposed to mail if I get stuck or if I
need to ensure that I am doing the right thing... I would also like to ask if
there are any tools that can help me do the job faster?
I also made a JIRA account as you proposed; My username is: andronat
On 13 Δεκ 2010, at 4:21 π.μ., Kevan Miller wrote:
>
> On Dec 10, 2010, at 10:24 AM, andronat_asf wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello my name is Anastasis Andronidis, I am an undergraduate Computer
>> Science student in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and it would be
>> of my utmost interest to participate in the ASF Mentoring Program. I would
>> be delighted to offer the best of my efforts to the Geronimo project.
>>
>> My main interest lies in developing and bug testing. I am also enrolled
>> in opense.net, an educational framework supported by my university,and
>> where currently the ASF has expressed their interest in finding mentees
>>
>> Currently I am interested in solving this issue:
>> https://issues.apache.org:443/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5717 or
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5729 or
>> anything else that the community believes is more needed.
>>
>> Apart from completing the mandatory project in the 'Introduction to
>> Software Engineering' course, the main reason for me wanting to join the ASF
>> Mentoring program is that more than anything to contribute to the Open
>> Source community, not to mention the experience I would gain by working for
>> the most accomplished community that developed really popular projects
>> including the most popular, Apache Web-Server
>>
>> I am new to all this and I don't really know what I exactly have to do
>> for being accepted as a mentee in this program, so any advice would be more
>> than welcome!
>
> Hi Anastasis,
> Your contributions would be quite welcome. If a specific mentor is needed,
> then I expect that we can find a committer to volunteer within the community.
> However, I also expect that the entire community would be happy to help.
>
> The Jira's you mention are in separate components of the server.
> GERONIMO-5717 involves the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) and interactions
> with server configuration. GERONIMO-5729 has to do with the content of our
> default web pages. Do you have any specific interests? Eclipse/IDE
> development? Web Applications? OSGi? Middleware components? Geronimo is a
> large project. There are lots of options for you... :-) I recommend you focus
> on a single aspect of the project...
>
> Starting with a few bug-fix Jira's is an excellent way to get started on the
> project. However, you may want to also consider a small development effort.
> Perhaps somebody has some ideas for you...
>
> If you tell us what your Jira login is, we can give you 'contributor' access
> to the Geronimo Jira's. This would allow you to assign Jira's to yourself (a
> way of letting everyone else know that you are investigating a specific
> problem).
>
> Would probably be a good idea for you to submit an ICLA. See -
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas
>
> The Geronimo project allows contributors additional access to our Jira and
> Wiki system. So, that contributors can assign Jira issues to themselves and
> also contribute documentation using our Wiki system.
>
> --kevan
