>> I think it is better if I start with fixing test cases. Thanks for your interests on working on tests, it is a good area to get started.
>> I see that some tickets are in open state but they are already assigned to someone. I like to know whether I could fix that kind of ticket and submit a patch? Yes you could. Just comment on the JIRA mentioning you are interested and we can go from there. There are lots of inactive JIRA issue that's assigned but not actively being worked on (and you can easily tell if the JIRA is active or not by checking the comment history.). On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Tharindu Kumara <zonik.hatkum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Rakesh for the information. > > I have already went through the specified wiki page. > > I think it is better if I start with fixing test cases. > In the mean time I will go through those pull requests. > > One small question, when I looking at JIRA, I see that some tickets are in > open state but they are already assigned to someone. I like to know whether > I could fix that kind of ticket and submit a patch? I am new to open source > contribution. > > > Thanks, > Tharindu > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Rakesh Radhakrishnan <rake...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Umbrella jira to fix flaky test cases: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2135. > > Probably, you could participate in code reviews(jira pull > requests/patches > > etc.). This will also help you to learn the system. > > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pulls > > > > I hope you have visited > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/HowToContribute > wiki > > page. If not please read this, which is a good resource for new folks > > interested in participating. > > > > Thanks, > > Rakesh > > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Tharindu Kumara < > > zonik.hatkum...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Yan, > > > > > > Thank you so much for your comments. I will start from there. I would > > like > > > to know, whether there are any tickets for this issue? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Yan Fitterer <y...@fitterer.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > A lovely thing to do would be to work on the tests. > > > > > > > > In my experience, the test suite is unreliable (it fails about 2/3 or > > the > > > > time for me), so there are probably timing/concurrency issues that > > could > > > be > > > > worked on. > > > > > > > > As a starter, run the test suite, see what fails for you (to make > sure > > > > you’re not picking up recent breakage, you could first confirm which > > > tests > > > > fail against a released version, and find one that still fails > against > > > > head), and see if you can make them pass. > > > > > > > > Just my 2c, there are plenty of other worthy contenders for > > contribution, > > > > I’m sure. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 25, 2017, at 01:16, Tharindu Kumara < > > zonik.hatkum...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I'm Tharindu Kumara, and currently I am working as a Software > > Engineer > > > > in a > > > > > well known company. I'm really interested in helping out and > > > contributing > > > > > to Apache Zookeeper Project . I've always loved to contribute to > the > > > open > > > > > source community and Apache Zookeeper seems like a brilliant place > > for > > > me > > > > > to start. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I good at C/C++, Java, Python and JavaScript and I have more than 5 > > > years > > > > > of experience in using these languages. And also I have a good > > > knowledge > > > > on > > > > > Distributed Computing principals. Apart from that I have a good > > > > > knowledge about libraries like boost and build tools like ant, > maven > > > and > > > > > cmake. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > During recent months, I read a lot about zookeeper. And I played > with > > > it > > > > to > > > > > get hand on experience. > > > > > I also played with exhibitor and apache curator as well. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It would be very kind of you If you could guide me along and assign > > me > > > a > > > > > bug on which I could work and begin contributing to the open source > > > > > community . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank You > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > LinkedIn: lk.linkedin.com/in/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ > > > > tharindukumara> > > > > > tharindukumara <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tharindukumara> > > > > > StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ > > users/3312620/tharindu-kumara > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Tharindu Kumara > > > BSc Undergraduate > > > University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). > > > Student Member of IEEE > > > > > > LinkedIn: lk.linkedin.com/in/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ > > tharindukumara> > > > tharindukumara <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tharindukumara> > > > GitHub: https://github.com/tharindukumara > > > StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/3312620/tharindu-kumara > > > > > > > > > -- > Tharindu Kumara > BSc Undergraduate > University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). > Student Member of IEEE > > LinkedIn: lk.linkedin.com/in/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tharindukumara> > tharindukumara <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tharindukumara> > GitHub: https://github.com/tharindukumara > StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/3312620/tharindu-kumara > -- Cheers Michael.
