+1. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Raphael Cendrillon < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > >
