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Re: New Contributor!

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:45:16 -0400

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Jeanfrancois Arcand wrote:
>>> My name is Leo and I am willing to contribute with Glassfish project.
>>> Few months ago I got the observer role, however I still confused
>>> about how is the best way to start helping someone.
>>> Please let me know if someone wanna use these hands!
>>
>> You work for IBM and you are interested to work in GlassFish? Great!
>> Which part of GlassFish are you interested in? You need to look at our
>> code and propose patches in order to be considered as a commiter.
>
> Meritocracy is the way!

:-)

>
> Leo: one way I typically try to get involved in an OSS project is by
> browsing through their bug tracker. Anything that's not being worked on
> that sounds doable, I start trying to find a way to fix it. That gets
> you familiar with the code, and by doing this a few times you show your
> value to the project.

The problem is not all modules have bugs, so that's why the first
question is to decide which modules/sub-projects ;-)

Leo already subscribed to Grizzly where there tons of things to do :-)

-- Jeanfrancois


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> - Charlie
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