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Posted to dev@directory.apache.org by Marcos Roriz <ma...@gmail.com> on 2010/11/20 04:18:16 UTC
[Community] How to get started?
Hi Guys,
First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm a undergrad student from Brazil
that loves FOSS, distributed systems and the Java Platform. I'm finishing my
undergrad this year and I'll go directly to my masters. I'm reading the
O'reilly LDAP book and I'm just fascinated with it. I'll try to associate
some of the directory service concepts as I advance in the masters and
solidifies (the knowledge), and try to relate them somehow with a research
of my advisor. With all this in consideration, I'm really interested on
getting up to understand and code for the Apache Directory project. I know
that the GSoC is one of the best ways to get started (have a brief in the
project). I tried to find some wiki pages to get started to code for the
project, but found none. Is there any document that explain the basics of
the project?
This year I participated for on GSoC for the GNU Classpath project. Also, I
submitted a proposal too, that got accepted, to work on Apache Harmony. I
decided to go for classpath because it was related to a topic that I'm more
comfortable (as I would work with X11). But the apache harmony was really
great too (but I would work on javadoc which :'/). I did a some patches to
harmony and signed the CLA.
Thanks in advance,
Marcos
--
Marcos Roriz
Bacharelando em Ciência da Computação
Universidade Federal de Goiás
E-mail: marcosrorizinf@gmail.com
Home Page: http://marcosroriz.wordpress.com
Re: [Community] How to get started?
Posted by Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org>.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Marcos Roriz <ma...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm a undergrad student from Brazil
> that loves FOSS, distributed systems and the Java Platform. I'm finishing my
> undergrad this year and I'll go directly to my masters. I'm reading the
> O'reilly LDAP book and I'm just fascinated with it.
>
Wow my kind of guy. You doing this for fun and curiosity? :-)
> I'll try to associate some of the directory service concepts as I advance
> in the masters and solidifies (the knowledge), and try to relate them
> somehow with a research of my advisor. With all this in consideration, I'm
> really interested on getting up to understand and code for the Apache
> Directory project. I know that the GSoC is one of the best ways to get
> started (have a brief in the project). I tried to find some wiki pages to
> get started to code for the project, but found none. Is there any document
> that explain the basics of the project?
>
>
Start with the documentation and use the products. Then take a look at how
you can help by checking out our JIRA and seeing where and how you can
contribute. It's always good to start writing test code to increase our code
coverage while you get familiar with the code base.
> This year I participated for on GSoC for the GNU Classpath project. Also, I
> submitted a proposal too, that got accepted, to work on Apache Harmony. I
> decided to go for classpath because it was related to a topic that I'm more
> comfortable (as I would work with X11). But the apache harmony was really
> great too (but I would work on javadoc which :'/). I did a some patches to
> harmony and signed the CLA.
>
>
Doco is great too - more important than code at times.
Welcome Marcos.
--
Alex Karasulu
My Blog :: http://www.jroller.com/akarasulu/
Apache Directory Server :: http://directory.apache.org
Apache MINA :: http://mina.apache.org
To set up a meeting with me: http://tungle.me/AlexKarasulu
Re: [Community] How to get started?
Posted by Marcos Roriz <ma...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for all the replys :)
This feature (LDIF "diff") sounds cool!
I'll take a look at it, but before I'll read the manuals that Kiran Ayyagari
pointed me :).
2010/11/20 Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>
> On 11/20/10 11:41 AM, Marcos Roriz wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for the fast reply.
>>
>> I'll start to dig into the documentation and pick some cool Jira
>> bug/requests ASAP =).
>>
>
> Hi Marcos,
>
> sure, JIRA is the simplest way to get started. However, in our very case,
> it may be like contemplating a 10000 thousands pieces puzzle.
>
> FYI, the LDAP server code is quite big. It's actually more than 365 000
> single lines of code (around 800 000 with comments and white lines). Getting
> a grip on it is tough. But its architecture allow a new comers to cope with
> some small parts of it without being swamp in many dependencies.
>
> Let me suggest you some parts you may start with :
> - there is something we need : a LDIF tool that compare two ldifs and
> generate a 'diff' with a list of added entry, removed entry, and for each
> modification, the list of added AttributeTypes, a list of delete ATs, and
> for each modified ATs, the list of added values, the list of removed values.
>
> This might be a good way to get a grip with the server, getting use with
> the API we have defined for the LDIF manipulation, and be useful at the same
> time :)
>
> I can create a JIRA for such a need. Note that it's up to you to pick this
> part, or to select any other part you want to work on : nobody is forcing
> you :)
>
> In any case, thanks a lot, it will be a pleasure to have you join us !
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Cordialement,
> Emmanuel Lécharny
> www.iktek.com
>
>
--
Marcos Roriz
Bacharelando em Ciência da Computação
Universidade Federal de Goiás
E-mail: marcosrorizinf@gmail.com
Home Page: http://marcosroriz.wordpress.com
Re: [Community] How to get started?
Posted by Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>.
On 11/20/10 11:41 AM, Marcos Roriz wrote:
> Thank you very much for the fast reply.
>
> I'll start to dig into the documentation and pick some cool Jira
> bug/requests ASAP =).
Hi Marcos,
sure, JIRA is the simplest way to get started. However, in our very
case, it may be like contemplating a 10000 thousands pieces puzzle.
FYI, the LDAP server code is quite big. It's actually more than 365 000
single lines of code (around 800 000 with comments and white lines).
Getting a grip on it is tough. But its architecture allow a new comers
to cope with some small parts of it without being swamp in many
dependencies.
Let me suggest you some parts you may start with :
- there is something we need : a LDIF tool that compare two ldifs and
generate a 'diff' with a list of added entry, removed entry, and for
each modification, the list of added AttributeTypes, a list of delete
ATs, and for each modified ATs, the list of added values, the list of
removed values.
This might be a good way to get a grip with the server, getting use with
the API we have defined for the LDIF manipulation, and be useful at the
same time :)
I can create a JIRA for such a need. Note that it's up to you to pick
this part, or to select any other part you want to work on : nobody is
forcing you :)
In any case, thanks a lot, it will be a pleasure to have you join us !
--
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
Re: [Community] How to get started?
Posted by Marcos Roriz <ma...@gmail.com>.
Thank you very much for the fast reply.
I'll start to dig into the documentation and pick some cool Jira
bug/requests ASAP =).
Thanks in advance,
Marcos Roriz
2010/11/20 Kiran Ayyagari <ka...@apache.org>
> hi Marcos,
>
> This is great, Welcome!
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Marcos Roriz <ma...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm a undergrad student from
> Brazil
> > that loves FOSS, distributed systems and the Java Platform. I'm finishing
> my
> > undergrad this year and I'll go directly to my masters. I'm reading the
> > O'reilly LDAP book and I'm just fascinated with it. I'll try to associate
> > some of the directory service concepts as I advance in the masters and
> > solidifies (the knowledge), and try to relate them somehow with a
> research
> > of my advisor. With all this in consideration, I'm really interested on
> > getting up to understand and code for the Apache Directory project. I
> know
> > that the GSoC is one of the best ways to get started (have a brief in the
> > project). I tried to find some wiki pages to get started to code for the
> > project, but found none. Is there any document that explain the basics of
> > the project?
> Best is to pickup an issue from JIRA[1] and start working on it, you
> can find the documentation here [2], note that the documentation work
> is in progress
> If you want to discuss about a issue either join us on
> #apache-directory-dev on freenode.
>
> > This year I participated for on GSoC for the GNU Classpath project. Also,
> I
> > submitted a proposal too, that got accepted, to work on Apache Harmony. I
> > decided to go for classpath because it was related to a topic that I'm
> more
> > comfortable (as I would work with X11). But the apache harmony was
> really
> > great too (but I would work on javadoc which :'/). I did a some patches
> to
> > harmony and signed the CLA.
> cool, AFAIU you will be granted commit access fairly easily after a
> significant committment.
>
> Kiran Ayyagari
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ [DIRSERVER] [DIRAPI]
> [DIRSHARED] [DIRKRB]
> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/apacheds-manuals/trunk
>
--
Marcos Roriz
Bacharelando em Ciência da Computação
Universidade Federal de Goiás
E-mail: marcosrorizinf@gmail.com
Home Page: http://marcosroriz.wordpress.com
Re: [Community] How to get started?
Posted by Kiran Ayyagari <ka...@apache.org>.
hi Marcos,
This is great, Welcome!
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Marcos Roriz <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm a undergrad student from Brazil
> that loves FOSS, distributed systems and the Java Platform. I'm finishing my
> undergrad this year and I'll go directly to my masters. I'm reading the
> O'reilly LDAP book and I'm just fascinated with it. I'll try to associate
> some of the directory service concepts as I advance in the masters and
> solidifies (the knowledge), and try to relate them somehow with a research
> of my advisor. With all this in consideration, I'm really interested on
> getting up to understand and code for the Apache Directory project. I know
> that the GSoC is one of the best ways to get started (have a brief in the
> project). I tried to find some wiki pages to get started to code for the
> project, but found none. Is there any document that explain the basics of
> the project?
Best is to pickup an issue from JIRA[1] and start working on it, you
can find the documentation here [2], note that the documentation work
is in progress
If you want to discuss about a issue either join us on
#apache-directory-dev on freenode.
> This year I participated for on GSoC for the GNU Classpath project. Also, I
> submitted a proposal too, that got accepted, to work on Apache Harmony. I
> decided to go for classpath because it was related to a topic that I'm more
> comfortable (as I would work with X11). But the apache harmony was really
> great too (but I would work on javadoc which :'/). I did a some patches to
> harmony and signed the CLA.
cool, AFAIU you will be granted commit access fairly easily after a
significant committment.
Kiran Ayyagari
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ [DIRSERVER] [DIRAPI]
[DIRSHARED] [DIRKRB]
[2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/apacheds-manuals/trunk