Thanks for the info. On Nov 27, 2007 12:04 PM, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Briggs - > > I have just recently gotten involved in Tika. It's my first experience > collaborating on an open source project, so I'm not very experienced, but > I'll tell you what I know. > > Your participation is valued and appreciated. The first stage is to be a > contributor. Over time, as the team gets to know you better and comes to > trust your work, you may be offered committer status (hint: don't ask for it > like I did ;)). > > If you have an idea for improvement, you can present the idea on this forum > for discussion. Based on the results of that discussion, you may want to go > ahead with it, modify your approach, or even abandon it if there is good > reason presented to do so (e.g. "we're throwing that code away next week > anyway"). > > Then you can post your patch. You're certainly free to post a patch with > your original message, but waiting until after the discussion may save you > some time. > > At some point during this process, you should post a new issue on the Jira > issue tracker (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA). Be as specific > as possible. The patch should be attached (uploaded) to that Jira issue. > > I don't know if this will affect you, but I found out that Intellij Idea's > patch functionality created a patch that was not exactly the right format. > Instead, I use "svn diff" on the command line, and call it from the root of > the source tree. > > Good luck, and thanks. > > Regards, > Keith > > > > Briggs wrote: > > > > So, how hard would it be to get more directly involved in Tika? The > > first thing I want to fix is the underlying implementation of > > MetaData. I want to remove all that array creation. Was that copied > > from Nutch? It looks familiar. > > > > But, anyway. I would like to become more involved in the project > > since it is basically something that I am currently implementing and > > would rather be able to work on an open source project and be > > productive at work. :-) > > > > > > Any info would be appreciated, > > > > Briggs > > > > -- > > "Conscious decisions by conscious minds are what make reality real" > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Becomming-a-contributor-commiter-tf4882666.html#a13975089 > Sent from the Apache Tika - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
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