Re: Which newbie Jira's need work?

2015-04-24 Thread Darrell Taylor
Hi Chris, Thanks for the info, I'm working through the newbie list and trying to pick anything up that seems simple. So, I got to MAPREDUCE-5673 and while this looks easy I asked myself if it was even worth doing? My reasoning is that this was raised by somebody who thinks it's a good idea to

Re: Which newbie Jira's need work?

2015-04-24 Thread Chris Nauroth
Hi Darrell, Those are great questions. This relates to project governance, so if you haven't already seen our bylaws, I recommend taking a look. https://hadoop.apache.org/bylaws.html The word bylaws sounds intimidating, but don't worry. It's a short document. :-) What you're describing

Re: Which newbie Jira's need work?

2015-04-23 Thread Chris Nauroth
If you happen to know which committers tend to do a lot of code reviews in the specific area of the code covered by your patch, then tagging them in a jira comment is an effective approach. If you're unsure who to contact, then please feel free to email the appropriate project-specific *-dev list

Re: Which newbie Jira's need work?

2015-04-23 Thread Darrell Taylor
Hi Tsuyoshi On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Tsuyoshi Ozawa oz...@apache.org wrote: Hi Darrell, Thank you for having interest for contributions to Hadoop project! * How do I know if a newbie Jira is even still valid? Please ping committers whether the issue is valid when the issue looks

Re: Which newbie Jira's need work?

2015-04-22 Thread Tsuyoshi Ozawa
Hi Darrell, Thank you for having interest for contributions to Hadoop project! * How do I know if a newbie Jira is even still valid? Please ping committers whether the issue is valid when the issue looks to have been resolved already. * Does anybody have any suggestions for a suitable newbie

Which newbie Jira's need work?

2015-04-22 Thread Darrell Taylor
Hi All, First off I've submitted a patch for HADOOP-11813 as a starter for 10, this was an easy change and starts to get me familiar with where things are. Now I've been looking through the newbie Jira's to see what else I can do to help, but I'm struggling to see the wood for the trees, which I