Hey all, First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm currently a PhD student at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA. I completed my bachelor's last year at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in Computer Science and Engineering. I interned at WSO2 Lanka (PVT) Ltd, where I worked with Docker and Docker Compose for creating deployment configurations. As my Final year project, I have worked on Apache Kafka, Apache Zookeeper and Apache Curator.
I have experience in Java, Docker, Maven, Gradle, and also in C/C++, Python and HTML/CSS/JS through working on university projects and personal projects. I'm interested in contributing to Apache this summer as I'm hoping to put my free time into good use to help out the development community, and thought Apache would be the best place to start as it means a lot to the community. Having said that, I would very much like to contribute to Apache OODT this time around. These days I'm familiarizing with the components of OODT, and I have some questions to ask. 1) Is there any beginner-level issues that you suggest me to look into so that I could kick start contributing? 2) I read through some README files and found some points I could add to improve them. Would it be fine to create PRs that contain such improvements? 3) I see there are three main components in OODT. Do you think I should familiarize with all, or do you have any specific areas that I should focus on? Best Regards, Yasith -- Yasith Jayawardana PhD Student, Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA +1 (757) 698-8978
