Hi Jason, Thanks for the information, and the invitation to the Slack channel. Appreciate it.
Pramod > On Jun 30, 2020, at 5:04 AM, Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Pramod, > > I'm pretty sure Erick answered some of your questions on the > SOLR-13205 jira already, but I wanted to restate those answers here > for other beginners that may be reading this thread or stumble on it > later. > > The way our project is set up, only "committers" can assign tickets in > JIRA. In practice, what you can do instead is post a comment > indicating that you've started looking into the ticket - that's enough > to prevent two people from accidentally doing the same work. > > In terms of mini-mentoring- I'd suggest getting set up in our IRC > channels or Slack chatroom. Of course, anything you ask there can be > asked on the mailing list too. But you might get feedback more > quickly in Slack/IRC than on the mailing list. I've sent you an > invite to Slack, in case you're interested. Feel free to ping me > ("@gerlowskija") on any questions you have there, or in JIRA, and I'll > try to help you out. > > Good luck on the ticket and on getting started in open source! > > Jason > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 10:10 PM Pramod Kumar > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am a newbie and was looking to pick up a quick task as my first >> (SOLR-13205). >> However, I don’t seem to be able to assign it to myself. Can someone please >> assign it to me? If I am missing something obvious, let me know how I can do >> it myself. >> >> There is some additional cleanup that I am planning on doing as a part of >> that task >> - There are a couple of places that do a charAt. I am planning on doing a >> null or empty check for the field and use the default if so. >> - Replace charAt with startsWith anyway since default can be null or empty. >> - Planning on also throwing an exception during init() if the arguments are >> not good. >> >> Let me know if someone disagrees. >> >> >> I also had another request. I am a fairly experienced engineer, but very new >> to open source and Apache. I am super interested in this space and that’s >> why I am looking to contribute substantially I hope. Is anyone willing to be >> a mini-mentor for me? I was just hoping for someone to answer some n00b >> questions in the beginning, that may cut down my spinning time in the >> beginning. Nothing super formal, and I promise to not take more than an hour >> a week at max. That time I would expect to dwindle down to nothing after a >> month or so. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Pramod > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
