Hi Thomas,
On 17/02/18 17:02, Thomas Red-Cloud wrote:
Hi, My name is Thomas Red-Cloud. I am as the name suggest a Native
American, from the Apache Chiricahua tribe of San Carlos Band. I am also a
software engineer, 20 years. I have made the decision to start
contributing, and express interest of becoming a member of the ASF which
honors my tribe. I have seen enough in the wild of SE to know that by
contributing, I will help pave the way for other engineers to innovate.
Best Regards,
Thomas
So first many thanks for your decision to help and contribute which is
the foundation of the Apache Software Foundation and it's great having
people who are willing to help.
Now the hard part comes to decide where to contribute ?
Have you already taken a look at the projects[1] of Apache Software
Foundation ? You can start contributing on a project while taking a look
into the mailing lists or in the appropriate JIRA and see if you can
help with an issue or just ask on the project mailing list where someone
of the projects can give you a hint where to start with (so called low
hanging fruits)...
You can start for example with reading the docs of the projects and if
you find a thing might might be improved/changed/fixed just start with
reporting it and maybe making suggestions how to improve/change/fix the
docs ...Or if you have more experience you can take a look at the jira
and try to work in a issue (best to talk before that on the mailing list
with the projects)...and create a patch and attach it to JIRA issue...
Most important here is to start communication on the mailing lists first
before you start working on something cause it might be the case that
the project has different priorities/ideas/long term directions etc.
than you have in your mind...
Also take a look into the community[2] docs as a starting point..
May own path was that I had having issues with a particular project
where I started to contribute to (reporting issues, offering patches
etc.). after a time I was offered to become a committer and later on I
became a PMC and after more time I became a ASF Member...
So to be honest going directly to become a Member might be a thing which
might happen in the future...but I would start with the beginning and
start as a contributor and the others things might happen in the furture...
Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise
[1]: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html
[2]: https://community.apache.org/contributors/
[3]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
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