Hi Rohan, Welcome!
To add just a bit to the good advice from Erick and Alex: If you want a smaller issue to familiarize yourself with our development workflow, the "newdev" label is a good place to start (as the wiki page referenced above points out). But I would also suggest taking a look at issues with the "documentation" label, or creating your own for any inconsistencies you find. Not all documentation issues make great starting points, but there's a few reasons I think they tend to be good first tasks: - we need our examples to be rock solid, since that's a common first starting point for those using Solr (as Alex pointed out). If anything is unclear as you read through those, getting the docs improved is really important. - improving a small piece of the docs is a great way to absorb that info as you work. - doc JIRA's tend to be limited in scope to a particular topic or page, which is great for new contributors - my gut feeling is that documentation reviews are less intimidating and are more likely to draw the eyes of a committer Good luck, and again, welcome. Jason On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:41 PM Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And I would recommend to start by trying all the (10?) examples that ship > with Solr and going through their config files. Even briefly. That may help > you fins the area to focus on, perhaps by something not being clear, etc. > > Regards, > Alex > P.s. And Solr on Windows could always get more love, if that is your > platform.... > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 5:40 PM Erick Erickson, <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Rohan: > > > > Here's the place everybody starts ;) > > > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute > > > > There's a _lot_ to Solr/Lucene, so I'd advise picking something you're > > interested in to start rather than trying to understand _everything_. > > > > Best, > > Erick > > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Rohan Chhabra > > <rohanchhabra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am an absolute beginner (dummy) in the field of contributing open > > source. > > > But I am interested in contributing to open source. How do i start? Solr > > is > > > a java based search engine based on Lucene. I am good at Java and > > therefore > > > chose this to start. > > > > > > I need guidance. Help required!! > >
