Contributing...

[James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>]

I would like to get started contributing to Hadoop.  Does anyone have
any pointers on where to start digging in?  I don't mean "look at
JIRAs and start submitting patches."  I mean, which areas of the
project would be a good place to start for a beginner?

Re: Contributing...

[Andrew Wang <an...@cloudera.com>]

You can also look for JIRAs with the "newbie" label, Eli's JIRA filter is
handy here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12315566

I'd even refine it by looking for recent unresolved, unassigned JIRAs with
this query:

project in (HADOOP, MAPREDUCE, HDFS) AND labels = newbie AND status = Open
AND assignee = EMPTY ORDER BY created DESC

Best,
Andrew


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:28 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:

> Sandy,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to give me some pointers.  I'll take a look
> and see where I can do the most damage. :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Sandy Ryza <sa...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > In terms of areas of active development, there's still quite a bit to do
> in
> > MapReduce and YARN. ApplicationHistoryServer (YARN-321), Rolling Restart
> > (YARN-666), and work-preserving preemption are all in their early stages.
> >  YARN in general could also still use some polish so there are probably a
> > decent number of JIRAs to pick up in that area.  I haven't contributed
> very
> > much to HDFS, so I don't have a ton of knowledge about what's going on
> > there.
> >
> > Also, I've found that a good way to start contributing is to use the
> > software and find things about it that bother you.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Sandy
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, James Carman <
> james@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to get started contributing to Hadoop.  Does anyone have
> >> any pointers on where to start digging in?  I don't mean "look at
> >> JIRAs and start submitting patches."  I mean, which areas of the
> >> project would be a good place to start for a beginner?
> >>
>

Re: Contributing...

[James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>]

Sandy,

Thanks for taking the time to give me some pointers.  I'll take a look
and see where I can do the most damage. :)

Thanks,

James

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Sandy Ryza <sa...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> In terms of areas of active development, there's still quite a bit to do in
> MapReduce and YARN. ApplicationHistoryServer (YARN-321), Rolling Restart
> (YARN-666), and work-preserving preemption are all in their early stages.
>  YARN in general could also still use some polish so there are probably a
> decent number of JIRAs to pick up in that area.  I haven't contributed very
> much to HDFS, so I don't have a ton of knowledge about what's going on
> there.
>
> Also, I've found that a good way to start contributing is to use the
> software and find things about it that bother you.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Sandy
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:
>
>> I would like to get started contributing to Hadoop.  Does anyone have
>> any pointers on where to start digging in?  I don't mean "look at
>> JIRAs and start submitting patches."  I mean, which areas of the
>> project would be a good place to start for a beginner?
>>

Re: Contributing...

[Sandy Ryza <sa...@cloudera.com>]

Hi James,

In terms of areas of active development, there's still quite a bit to do in
MapReduce and YARN. ApplicationHistoryServer (YARN-321), Rolling Restart
(YARN-666), and work-preserving preemption are all in their early stages.
 YARN in general could also still use some polish so there are probably a
decent number of JIRAs to pick up in that area.  I haven't contributed very
much to HDFS, so I don't have a ton of knowledge about what's going on
there.

Also, I've found that a good way to start contributing is to use the
software and find things about it that bother you.

Hope that helps,
Sandy


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:

> I would like to get started contributing to Hadoop.  Does anyone have
> any pointers on where to start digging in?  I don't mean "look at
> JIRAs and start submitting patches."  I mean, which areas of the
> project would be a good place to start for a beginner?
>