New to the list.

[Tony Blanchard <bl...@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello to the list.

I am a french developper and would like to help on the ApacheDS if it is 
possible and compatible with my planning.
As I have never worked on an open source project, and as I want to 
achieve correctly the things I bind to(is this correct ?), I would like 
just to know some basic things on it.

For instance, how do you manage your work to achieve planned tasks on time ?
Who dispacthes the tasks and how ?
Who chooses the persons who contribute and how does he/she see the 
technical level of the new contributer ?

I  have read the Apache pages on contribution but, maybe as English is 
not my  natural language, I did not find it very clear. For instance, I 
find the entire way of working is not clearly explained , what is the 
process, what are the tools ... Maybe I have missed something ...

Thanks for your patience
Tony Blanchard

Re: New to the list.

[Alex Karasulu <ao...@bellsouth.net>]

Tony Blanchard wrote:

> Hello to the list.
>
Welcome Tony!

> I am a french developper and would like to help on the ApacheDS if it 
> is possible and compatible with my planning.
> As I have never worked on an open source project, and as I want to 
> achieve correctly the things I bind to(is this correct ?), I would 
> like just to know some basic things on it.
>
> For instance, how do you manage your work to achieve planned tasks on 
> time ?

We use JIRA here:

http://issues.apache.org/jira

>
> Who dispacthes the tasks and how ?

Well there are project leads and they usually pick up tasks but others 
come in to pick things up that have particular importance to them.

> Who chooses the persons who contribute and how does he/she see the 
> technical level of the new contributer ?

Our PMC does as a community.  There is more information on this process 
on the main Apache site here:

http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html

You might want to look at how people become committers on that page.

> I  have read the Apache pages on contribution but, maybe as English is 
> not my  natural language, I did not find it very clear. For instance, 
> I find the entire way of working is not clearly explained , what is 
> the process, what are the tools ... Maybe I have missed something ...

Hmm so you read the material above? 

> Thanks for your patience

Np.

    -- Alex