Re: Developing Hadoop and HDFS

2009-09-29 Thread Jakob Homan
Thanks for your interest, Geoff. Yes, finding open JIRAS and contributing patches is very helpful. We also maintain a wishlist of projects that one could work on: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ProjectSuggestions. In addition, please do consider documentation and example work as well, as this

Developing Hadoop and HDFS

2009-09-29 Thread Geoffrey Gallaway
Hello, Yes, another person looking to contribute to and develop Hadoop. I'm looking to start off small, fixing a few bugs before moving into larger stuff. First, a bit of background: Years ago I had the idea of creating a semi-decentralized distributed file system. The idea came when I was workin