Thanks Kathey. Ravi.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Kathey Marsden <kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: > Ravi wrote: > >> Hi Ross, >> I have been using Hadoop for 6 months. I have a Hadoop cluster on 4 nodes. >> Till now I concentrated mainly on developing new map-reduce algorithms. I >> have been reading the Hadoop code also. Since I have used Hadoop for >> implementing my algos, I feel that I should contribute back to Hadoop >> > I am not sure which of these projects were implemented already but you may > find some ideas at: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009. For > Derby we have a newcomer checkbox in Jira to hightlight issues appropriate > for newcomers. I am not sure if Hadoop has something similar. I think > you should ask on the Hadoop list for ideas and also see if you can get a > mentor to volunteer. One incentive for mentors might be to let the list > know that you are willing to help out with some project that they are > working on anyway if there are appropriate subtasks that you can help out > with. > > I have someone else looking for a mentor on Geronimo. I think he found help > there, but noone who wanted to get involved in the formal mentoring program, > so he is keeping it informal. I am not sure the general feeling about it in > the Hadoop community. > Thanks > > Kathey > > > > > > > >
