Sandy, Thanks for taking the time to give me some pointers. I'll take a look and see where I can do the most damage. :)
Thanks, James On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Sandy Ryza <sandy.r...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > In terms of areas of active development, there's still quite a bit to do in > MapReduce and YARN. ApplicationHistoryServer (YARN-321), Rolling Restart > (YARN-666), and work-preserving preemption are all in their early stages. > YARN in general could also still use some polish so there are probably a > decent number of JIRAs to pick up in that area. I haven't contributed very > much to HDFS, so I don't have a ton of knowledge about what's going on > there. > > Also, I've found that a good way to start contributing is to use the > software and find things about it that bother you. > > Hope that helps, > Sandy > > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, James Carman > <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > >> I would like to get started contributing to Hadoop. Does anyone have >> any pointers on where to start digging in? I don't mean "look at >> JIRAs and start submitting patches." I mean, which areas of the >> project would be a good place to start for a beginner? >>
