How to help?

[Dani <2v...@sneakemail.com>]

Hi all.

I'm a Java programmer who wants to help in the development of Nutch. 
I've never been involved in a free software project over the Internet.

Where to begin?  How to help?

TIA..

Re: How to help?

[Fredrik Andersson <fi...@gmail.com>]

Look at the Apache JIRA for Nutch, 
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/Nutch ... tons of stuff to do there.

Fredrik

On 9/1/05, Dani <2v...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm a Java programmer who wants to help in the development of Nutch.
> I've never been involved in a free software project over the Internet.
> 
> Where to begin? How to help?
> 
> TIA..
>

Re: How to help?

[Andrzej Bialecki <ab...@getopt.org>]

Dani wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm a Java programmer who wants to help in the development of Nutch. 

Great! Welcome to the party... ;-)

> I've never been involved in a free software project over the Internet.
> 
> Where to begin?  How to help?

* Read the documentation at http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ (the Wiki 
also contains some practical information not found in the main docs).

* download the code, and play around with it, according to the tutorial

* take a look at what's under the hood, how Nutch does various things

* discover bugs and deficiencies

* read mailing list archives to see if the issues have been discussed, 
or go to the bug tracking system 
(http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH) and check if they are 
reported/fixed.

* come up with fixes and enhancements :-)

And above else, have fun playing with Nutch.

-- 
Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki     <><
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