My Project Proposal

[Alessandro Cipriani <ge...@gmail.com>]

Hi, my name is Alessandro Cipriani, i'm from Italy and i'd like to
partecipate to Apache Chemistry project. I'm a J2EE developer since
2004, i like struts, velocity and jQuery(even though it isn't an
Apache Project) and obviously i often use them. Actually i'm working
on liferay and alfresco.
How i can start to help you?

Bye

Alessandro

Re: My Project Proposal

[Paolo Mottadelli <pa...@gmail.com>]

Hi Alessandro,

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Alessandro Cipriani <ge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How i can start to help you?

First, you've come to the right place :-)
Thanks so much for your interest in the project and congratulations!

Starting contributing to an Apache project is pretty straightforward.
You just start playing with the sources [1] and find a specific area
you'd mostly like to contribute in (if you don't already have one).
As soon as you have some valuable piece of code (no matter how big or
complex it is, it could even be a 1-line bug fix) you can open an
issue on our issue tracker [2]) uploading a patch; in case an issue
referring to your work is already existing, simply comment it and add
your patch.
Very important for us is also having you participating to discussions
in our dev- mailing list!
Technical tips here [3]

Usually, after some time regularly contributing with patches and in
mailing list, you should be proposed as a committer for the project;
and that would be the time to switch to [4] :-)

Looking forward to meeting you here!
Cheers,

[1] - http://incubator.apache.org/chemistry/source-repository.html
[2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS
[3] - http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html
[4] - http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html

-- 
Paolo Mottadelli
http://twitter.com/paolomoz