Contributing to Spark

[Sam Elamin <hu...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I would like to start contributing to Spark if possible, its an amazing
technology and I would love to get involved


The contributing page <http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html> states
this "consult the list of starter tasks in JIRA, or ask the
user@spark.apache.org mailing list."


Can anyone guide me on where is best to start? What are these "starter
tasks"?

I was thinking adding tests would be a good place to begin when dealing
with any new code base, perhaps to Pyspark since Scala seems a bit more
stable


Also - if at all possible - I would really appreciate if any of the
contributors or PMC members would be willing to mentor or guide me in this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Regards
Sam

Re: Contributing to Spark

[cht liu <li...@gmail.com>]

Hi Sam
A great way to contribute to Spark is to help answer user questions on the
user@spark.apache.org mailing list or on StackOverflow.

2017-03-20 11:50 GMT+08:00 Nick Pentreath <ni...@gmail.com>:

> If you have experience and interest in Python then PySpark is a good area
> to look into.
>
> Yes, adding things like tests & documentation is a good starting point.
> Start out relatively small and go from there. Adding new wrappers to python
> for ML is useful for slightly larger tasks.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 at 02:39, Sam Elamin <hu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to start contributing to Spark if possible, its an amazing
>> technology and I would love to get involved
>>
>>
>> The contributing page <http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html> states
>> this "consult the list of starter tasks in JIRA, or ask the
>> user@spark.apache.org mailing list."
>>
>>
>> Can anyone guide me on where is best to start? What are these "starter
>> tasks"?
>>
>> I was thinking adding tests would be a good place to begin when dealing
>> with any new code base, perhaps to Pyspark since Scala seems a bit more
>> stable
>>
>>
>> Also - if at all possible - I would really appreciate if any of the
>> contributors or PMC members would be willing to mentor or guide me in this.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Sam
>>
>>
>>

Re: Contributing to Spark

[Nick Pentreath <ni...@gmail.com>]

If you have experience and interest in Python then PySpark is a good area
to look into.

Yes, adding things like tests & documentation is a good starting point.
Start out relatively small and go from there. Adding new wrappers to python
for ML is useful for slightly larger tasks.




On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 at 02:39, Sam Elamin <hu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to start contributing to Spark if possible, its an amazing
> technology and I would love to get involved
>
>
> The contributing page <http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html> states
> this "consult the list of starter tasks in JIRA, or ask the
> user@spark.apache.org mailing list."
>
>
> Can anyone guide me on where is best to start? What are these "starter
> tasks"?
>
> I was thinking adding tests would be a good place to begin when dealing
> with any new code base, perhaps to Pyspark since Scala seems a bit more
> stable
>
>
> Also - if at all possible - I would really appreciate if any of the
> contributors or PMC members would be willing to mentor or guide me in this.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> Regards
> Sam
>
>
>