On 24.10.2011 Grant Ingersoll wrote: > Docs is one obvious one. Also, just keep supplying patches.
Speaking of supplying patches: Doing so seems non-trivial for quite some developers. During the Apache Hadoop Hackathon Berlin earlier this year Jakob Homan did a very interesting exercise: The Hadoop project seems to have bug reports that are trivial to fix (trivial as in typos in documentation, enhanced error messages etc.). Jakob used those to introduce developers to the whole patch generation and submission process during the Hackathon. Dan (and users of Mahout, in particular those who have not yet submitted any patch) - do you think that having some of those bugs around (w/o a version number assigned, maybe tagged as "trivial") help you get started with being active contributors? How about marking issues the community feels manageable for newcomers as "mentor" as proposed in the Getting Started guide of community.a.o project: http://community.apache.org/gettingStarted/101.html ? Isabel
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