Hi Tim, I'm a new comer that want to but haven't contributed yet.
Where are the easy bugs? Thanks, Tim On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Tim McNamara <paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz>wrote: > After chatting with Noah S on Twitter, I offered to jot up some > thoughts on things that my reduce or eliminate perceived barriers to > entry to work on CouchDB. > > Here are a few things that I've been able to think of. In the course > of researching this mail though, I've actually answered many of my own > questions. > > "serious business" > A database seems like the kind of project that only extremely talented > people would touch. People depend on the code working. Getting started > would require quite a bit of confidence. Am I good enough? > > > "Erlang, wtf" > This is a barrier that I've been facing for a while. I'm actually in > the process of learning Erlang, trying to expand my horizons from > Python. Still, a new language makes it harder to have the required > confidence. > > > "I still don't understand rereduce" > I'm personally not 100% clear on how queries work. This is even after > using the db for a while. I don't want to look like a stupid idiot in > front of great developers. Therefore, there's a high risk of offering > suggestions and getting told to "RTFM" > > > "Where are the easy bugs?" > [solved] > > > "wow, big code base" > Is there any documentation on how to project is laid out? Stepping > into a new project is always a little daunting. > > > "Apache project?" > As someone outside of the ASF, I don't really know what contributing > on an Apache project means. >
