Help for a Newbie

2016-08-10 Thread Utsav Oza
Hi All, I am new to this list. Please help me with any newbie helper guide. How do I get work assigned here? Honestly, I am quite intimidated after reading the mailing list. I am not quite sure where do I begin. I am sorry if the same question was raised before. ---

Re: Help for a Newbie

2016-08-10 Thread Matt Sicker
Look through Jira for open bugs and features, submit patches, discuss larger features and how to implement them on the dev list. On 10 August 2016 at 09:47, Utsav Oza wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to this list. Please help me with any newbie helper guide. > > How do I get work assigned here? Hon

Re: Help for a Newbie

2016-08-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, great that you want to contribute. Apache Commons is kind of a kitchen-sink project, and you are probably best positioned when you look at aspecific sub-project. If you check out the (maven) sites for the projects you typically find a page to instructions for contribution or you look at CO

Re: Help for a Newbie

2016-08-11 Thread Utsav Oza
Since this is my first open source any small task would be quite helpful for me to get started. I am quite comfortable with Java and C++ programming languages. I am sorry if this conversation may seem a bit out of context from mailing list. Regards, Utsav Oza

Re: Help for a Newbie

2016-08-15 Thread Landon Blake
Utsav: I've been meaning to do a little bit of clean-up and unit testing in the Collections package of Apache Commons. Perhaps we could work together. Ping me if your interested and I'll take a look at the code to see if there is a small task we can tackle together. Its great that you want to par