Welcome, Pavel! I'm glad that you were helped so quickly by David B. Nice!
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:27 AM Pavel Šmajda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > That's perfect! I definitely want to expand coding skills on field of > testing, especially in Java. It looks like a great idea and place where > I'll be happy :-) > > What it takes about non-coding part - I can do it too. If those docs are > important to you, I can update all of them. They deserve better styling for > sure :-))) I just need some template to see how it should look finished > before I start. > Let me know, please, where should I start (PR, github project etc.), and > I'll do the rest. > > Thanks a lot for your help. > Pavel > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:14 AM David Blevins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Pavel! > > > > It's really great to hear from you. If you want to learn to code some > > tests, we will absolutely help! Expanding one's coding skills is always > a > > fantastic journey and testing is a great way to both start small and > learn > > to go big. Testing is one of those areas where the bar is low for coding > > skill because any test is better than no test and test code doesn't have > to > > work in production. But you can take it to pretty extreme levels, > because > > it is the thing you use to guarantee you have no issues in production. > > It's a wonderful place to grow. > > > > If you want some non-coding quality related items you can help with we > > have *plenty* of those too. We have 164 docs that were converted from > > Confluence markup to Markdown to Asciidoc. We developers are great at > > writing scripts to "do it real quick" and are pretty bad at checking the > > results. That gives us pages like this: > > > > - http://tomee.apache.org/tomee-8.0/docs/maven/run-mojo.html > > > > We need a human willing to look at each page, see if "just looks off" and > > file a JIRA so it can be fixed. No one really wants to do work like that > > because everyone just wants to code, so these kinds of things are often > > never fixed. I say that knowing I'm no better than anyone else -- I did > > the Confluence -> Markdown conversion 9 years ago and I still find broken > > pages I missed. > > > > So we need a ton of work there too! > > > > I'm sure we could find some other ways to help as well if neither of > those > > sound great. > > > > Either way, so awesome you took the first step! Welcome to the TomEE > > community! > > > > > > -- > > David Blevins > > http://twitter.com/dblevins > > http://www.tomitribe.com > > > > > On Dec 11, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Pavel Šmajda <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to join the community and help with some testing. What I > can > > > do for TomEE or for community? How can I help you to improve it? > > > > > > I'm not superb tester but I can do some stuff so let me know please ;-) > > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Pavel Smajda > > > > > > -- > Tel.:+420 777 309 176 > -- Richard Monson-Haefel https://twitter.com/rmonson https://www.linkedin.com/in/monsonhaefel/
