Learning CouchDB Core

[Lalit Kushwah <la...@hotwaxsystems.com>]

Hello All,

First of all, I would like to give a humongous thank to the Apache CouchDB
community for developing such an amazing database, capable of doing most of
the things.

I am highly inspired by such a great community and team work. So I would
like to contribute in making CouchDB ore strengthful.

I am a Software Developer and new to Erlang. So can anyone of you please
guide me that from where I can start?

Thanks & Regards
Lalit Kushwah



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Re: Learning CouchDB Core

[Lalit Kushwah <la...@hotwaxsystems.com>]

Thanks Randall,

I will start working on your suggestions. It would be my pleasure to be a
tiny part of such an effective community.



T‌hanks & Regards
Lalit Kushwah

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Randall Leeds <ra...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:04 AM Lalit Kushwah <
> lalit.kushwah@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
>
> Hello, Lalit, and welcome!
>
> I am highly inspired by such a great community and team work. So I would
> > like to contribute in making CouchDB ore strengthful.
> >
>
> The CouchDB community inspired me to get involved and also to learn Erlang
> about 9 years ago and I'm so glad it continues to do that.
>
>
> > I am a Software Developer and new to Erlang. So can anyone of you please
> > guide me that from where I can start?
> >
>
> I have not been much involved in code of CouchDB in the past few years, but
> I would love to help you get started.
>
> I suggest to work through some Erlang tutorials until you feel you have a
> basic grasp of the language. The first part of the book "Concurrent
> Programming in Erlang" seems to be available for free [1]. "Learn You Some
> Erlang" [2] might be good, but I don't know for sure. Other people on this
> list may have suggestions.
>
> Make sure you join the IRC or the Slack channel, whichever you prefer [3].
> That's a great way to get to know other people in the community and listen
> to conversations about development.
>
> Start by building CouchDB from source to make sure you have all the tools
> you need. Then, read recent commits or pull requests of other contributors
> or pick one module at a time and study it to see how it works. When you
> feel ready, ask for recommendations on small patches you can contribute, or
> pick up a stale pull request that seems to be ignored and rescue it. Often,
> there are small issues that no one has had time to fix yet, but are
> friendly for new contributors.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask questions or to share patches in progress for
> feedback and have fun!
>
> [1] http://erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf
> [2] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
> [3] http://couchdb.apache.org/#chat
>

Re: Learning CouchDB Core

[Randall Leeds <ra...@apache.org>]

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:04 AM Lalit Kushwah <
lalit.kushwah@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>

Hello, Lalit, and welcome!

I am highly inspired by such a great community and team work. So I would
> like to contribute in making CouchDB ore strengthful.
>

The CouchDB community inspired me to get involved and also to learn Erlang
about 9 years ago and I'm so glad it continues to do that.


> I am a Software Developer and new to Erlang. So can anyone of you please
> guide me that from where I can start?
>

I have not been much involved in code of CouchDB in the past few years, but
I would love to help you get started.

I suggest to work through some Erlang tutorials until you feel you have a
basic grasp of the language. The first part of the book "Concurrent
Programming in Erlang" seems to be available for free [1]. "Learn You Some
Erlang" [2] might be good, but I don't know for sure. Other people on this
list may have suggestions.

Make sure you join the IRC or the Slack channel, whichever you prefer [3].
That's a great way to get to know other people in the community and listen
to conversations about development.

Start by building CouchDB from source to make sure you have all the tools
you need. Then, read recent commits or pull requests of other contributors
or pick one module at a time and study it to see how it works. When you
feel ready, ask for recommendations on small patches you can contribute, or
pick up a stale pull request that seems to be ignored and rescue it. Often,
there are small issues that no one has had time to fix yet, but are
friendly for new contributors.

Don't hesitate to ask questions or to share patches in progress for
feedback and have fun!

[1] http://erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf
[2] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
[3] http://couchdb.apache.org/#chat