Thanks for the response folks!
I am following the link http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute but
looks like I am missing something.
I am in the following directory hadoop\release-1.0.2-rc2\src (attached
screenshot) and have been able to build the protocol buffer.
I am using cygwin and tryi
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute is the best place to start.
Checking the code in through git will not trigger a jenkins build, unless you
have a special setup that goes beyond Apache provides. You do not need to
compile the entire tree to get Map/Reduce, but typically it is not a
I am interested in working on mapreduce package, so not sure if I need
to compile the whole tree.
I work on branch-0.23. It can be just imported into SpringToolsSuite,
then click on Run -> Maven -> type in 'compile' target. It compiles
module it just fails on Avro stuff. But it is good enough