Thanks again Lefty for the info. I followed the links and got lot more information. I am interested in few projects but wanted to know two more things; 1. Can I contribute to a project if I just know the programming language well (Say Java), and not know much about the project (Say Cassandra)? 2. I see that there are 4 mailing lists 'Users, Developers, Committers, client library'. I subscribed to Developers list, I got a confirmation that my id has been subscribed, but haven't received any mail. Is this the mailing list I need to watch if I want to start contributing? Thanks and regards Prakaskh. ________________________________________ From: B Prakash <bpr...@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 2:42 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Unable to find bug tracker list
Hi Lefty, this helps, thank you :-) ________________________________________ From: Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 2:40 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Unable to find bug tracker list Prakash, you can find the bug tracker for each project by following links in the projects directory (https://projects.apache.org/projects.html). For example, if you were interested in the Hive project you could scroll down the list of projects to find Apache Hive and follow this link: Apache Hive <https://projects.apache.org/project.html?hive>. The project page has a Development section that includes "Bug-tracking" which gives this link to the Hive JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE. The Summary page has a menu on the left, and Issues <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:issues-panel> is the first item in the menu. Other projects use Bugzilla instead of JIRA. For example, see the Apache Ant page <https://projects.apache.org/project.html?ant>. You can also reach bug trackers from the individual project home pages, which are easy to find with any search engine, but they may use different names (Hive says "Issue Tracking" and Ant says "Bug Database") and the links will be in different places on the home page, so I recommend using the project list as described above. Thank you for your interest in contributing. -- Lefty Leverenz On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:58 AM, B Prakash <bpr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > I am interested in contributing to ASF. Though I have been thinking > about it for a while I got the time only now. I have been going through > the site looking for bugs list as stated in the ASF 'Where do I start' page > ie 101.html but I couldnt find it please help. Following is the section in > the page that points to bugs list. > > > "If you are trying to satisfy a specific technical problem then you > already know what you want to work on, but if you are looking for something > useful to do in order to participate in an ASF project then the projects > issue/bug tracker is your friend (this will be linked from the projects > home page or from its entry on the projects page linked above). > > In the projects issue tracker you will find details of bugs and feature > requests the project would like to work with, this should give you some > inspiration about how you might be able to help the project community. If > you are looking for a beginner level issue try searching JIRA for issues > with the label "GSoC" or "mentor", these are issues the community feel are > manageable for someone new to the ASF and their project. The community has > also indicated that they are willing to help someone work on those issues > through our mentoring program< > https://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html#NewbieFAQ-AbouttheApacheMentoringProgramme > >. > > " > > > Regards, > > Prakash >
