Hi Stefano, On 29 Dec 2013, at 07:40, Stefano Fornari <stefano.forn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear dev, > in issue TIKA-1179 I was suggested to contribute to tika 1.5 to speed up > the release of the fix. I plan to use tika and I'll be happy to contribute > something back. Is there anything simple I can start with? How the > contribution process looks like? Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Tika! Helping out here at Tika can manifest in many different ways depending on your skills - joining and interacting on the user and developer mail lists, improving the Wiki, provide patches for documentation, collaborating on the issue tracker[1] or submit code patches. There is also a good guide if you are new to Apache Software Foundation[2]. In terms of the 1.5 release, it is down to the community in that we need to take a wee vote on if we are ready for one and agree if there is anything else that needs fixed or included in it. There is a lot of issues marked as resolved but also 22 open[3], so there may be something you think you can contribute to in that list by means of a patch. Chris was talking about spinning one up once he had a few free cycles but to kick the ball rolling I will start by putting out an email on what to include. > Alternatively, I would backport the fix to 1.4 so that we could release a > 1.4.1 quickly. What do you think? With a release for 1.5 potentially just around the corner, my opinion would be that I think it would be better to focus on addressing anything that blocks releasing that instead of creating a back-port and then going through the release process for 1.4.1. Cheers, Dave [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA [2] https://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20TIKA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%221.5%22%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC
