Btw, there was an intro to couchdb dev wiki/course before and it's here: http://moodle.wohmart.com/login/index.php
The course stopped in mid-way because of both students and instructor lack of participating, but the reources I believe are still available if you want to learn more erlang and some couchdb internals. Tim On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Tim McNamara <[email protected]>wrote: > If you visit JIRA's Issue Navigator > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa), then > select CouchDB in the project field and "Easy " in the skill field. > Direct link at [1]. > > [1] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+COUCHDB+AND+resolution+%3D+Fixed+AND+%22Skill+Level%22+%3D+%22New+Contributors+Level+%28Easy%29%22 > > On 11 April 2012 13:06, Timothy Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > <[email protected]>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. > >> >
