Todd - this is a great idea and nice list of JIRAs to take care about! I assume you are leaving 0.22 blockers to more experienced contributors, right? -- Take care, Konstantin (Cos) Boudnik
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:49, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent this afternoon looking through JIRA to identify some issues that I > think would be good for new contributors to try their hand at. In my mind, > the qualities of such an issue are: > > - fairly straightforward issue to solve (an experienced contributor would be > able to address it in 30-60 minutes) > - fairly tight scope (doesn't require understanding of a lot of different > moving pieces) > - easy to write a unit test for (so we get new contributors on the right > path of testing their changes) > - not likely to be controversial among contributors > > I came up with about 25 of these from looking through the 0.22 and 0.23 > "Affects Version" lists: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+in+(%22HADOOP%22,+%22MAPREDUCE%22,+%22HDFS%22)+and+labels+%3D+%22newbie%22 > > I'd like to encourage others to look through any JIRAs that they think fit > the bill, and add the same label. Then, we can point new contributors at > this list of JIRAs -- hopefully this will get them on the right path towards > understanding our project's workflow and give some nice positive > reinforcement since they should be easy to review and commit quickly. > > Thanks! > > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera >
