Hi Isabel, As someone keen to contribute, but still quite new to Mahout, I think this is a great idea.
On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
