Re: New beam contributor experience?

2018-03-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Good point. As mentioned, maybe the contribution guide is not enough, we also have the "low hanging fruit" tagged Jira that new contributors can take a look. Maybe for both users and new contributors, it would be great to have additional concrete examples. Today, the game examples is great but

Re: New beam contributor experience?

2018-03-14 Thread Gaurav Thakur
I agree with Pablo, it would be great if there is place someone new like me can go and find out what would be some good starting points to start contributing. Apologies if there is such a place already somewhere, I would appreciate some directions in that case. Thanks, Gaurav On Thu, Mar 15, 201

Re: New beam contributor experience?

2018-03-14 Thread Pablo Estrada
Some things that we have found working with our friends at IBM are: - No Python install from code documentation (which I've brought up before, and I believe is a known issue) - The process to pick up a JIRA is not very clear. It seems that there are a lot of implicit conventions (is discussion req

Re: New beam contributor experience?

2018-03-14 Thread Andrew Pilloud
To add more to what Anton said, the 'mvn clean verify' step takes hours and fails frequently due to bad tests. I spent the first few days working with beam trying to figure out what was wrong with my system when I was just hitting test flaps. If we're going to gradle that would be a great place to

Re: New beam contributor experience?

2018-03-14 Thread Anton Kedin
Not sure if it was mentioned in other threads, but it probably makes sense to add gradle instructions there. On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:48 AM Alan Myrvold wrote: > There is a contribution guide at > https://beam.apache.org/contribute/contribution-guide/ > Has anyone had challenges / pain points

New beam contributor experience?

2018-03-14 Thread Alan Myrvold
There is a contribution guide at https://beam.apache.org/contribute/contribution-guide/ Has anyone had challenges / pain points when getting started with new contributions? Any suggestions for making this better? Alan