Hi Stanbolers and Mr. Soroka, I was curious, if there has been any development in the organization of the meeting. Would it perhaps make sense to create a doodle, so that anyone interested can vote for the suitable time? If I can somehow help make this meeting happen, I will be more than happy to.
Cheers, Michal Krajnansky Research Specialist Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe http://research.konicaminolta.eu/ On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:50 PM A. Soroka <aj...@virginia.edu> wrote: > This is a nice précis of how to get involved with pretty much any Apache > project. On one particular point: > > > * There is no technical barrier to start contributing to Stanbol. > > Well, no, not any unsurmountable technical barriers. But it is not an easy > code base to approach (I count over 230 Maven modules!). There are a lot of > important underlying technologies like JAX-RS, OSGi (and the slightly > obscure Sling launcher system), and an extensive set of relationships to > other projects (e.g. Marmotta, Solr, etc.). And Stanbol has a lot of great > functionality with which to become familiar! > > So my hope for a synchronous meeting is rooted in the desire for some > "bootstrapping" discussion that could help people like me (who are ready > and willing to do work) get to do that work with as little overhead as > possible, while updating and writing documentation to help the _next_ > "generation" of Stanbol contributors. > > --- > A. Soroka > The University of Virginia Library > > > On Mar 20, 2017, at 4:54 AM, Fabian Christ <christ.fab...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Stanbolers, > > > > there have been some questions in the direction of how to start > > contributing to Stanbol. Especially from the viewpoint of a company. I > > would like to point to some basics here at Apache. > > > > * The ASF projects are about people and not so much about companies. > > However, companies are very welcome to let their employees contribute > > to projects during their working hours. > > * There is no technical barrier to start contributing to Stanbol. For > > people, who are not yet committers to the SVN yet, the process is to > > file a JIRA ticket and attach a patch file to that ticket for desired > > changes. A Stanbol committer has to pick this patch and apply it to > > the code base. > > * People who started to contribute to Stanbol and show interest will > > be invited to become official Stanbol committers. > > * All discussions about the project and its contributions have to > > happen on the dev mailing list. There should be no discussions in some > > other channel that are not archived or visible to the world. The > > mantra here is "If it is not on the list, it did not happen." > > > > So everyone with interest in the Stanbol technology is very welcome to > > start any technical discussion about improvements on the dev list, > > file JIRA ticket, submit patches. This is the way the group of > > contributors will grow. > > > > Best > > Fabian > > > > -- > > Fabian > > http://twitter.com/fctwitt > >
