| On VolunteeringApache Commons is a little bit different from other Apache projects. It's an assembly ofcomponents each with its own little community of users, developers and committers.Of course, there is some overlap between components and anespirit de corpsbut Commons is a big, busy Bazaar. So, one FAQ is -I'd like to help but how do I volunteer?Hopefully people asking this have already browsed through thegeneral Apache documentation but are having troubles getting a grip on Commons. Luckily Craig R. McClanahan posted an excellent answer to this very question tothe commons-dev list -so why not get involved?! Prabhat Kumar wrote:>I was wondering if I could contribute in any way towards this project. I am>a Java programmer of moderate ability and use Struts, Ant and Log4j at my>daytime job. We are currently looking at using the commons pool package at>work.>>The "How do I contribute" section on the commons page says that you need any>contributions. So let me know.>>Prabhat. Hello Prabhat,The best way to contribute is to identify for yourself things that youthink are broken, or could be improved, and then propose a patch. Acouple of ways to identify possible candidates:* Have you used a commons API, and wished it would do something a little more? or a little different? In open source circles, people often get involved initially by "scratching your own itch" as the saying goes.* Have you called up the bug reports >http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/< (*) for the Commons project, and seen any bugs that you can create a patch for?* Have you checked your favorite package's TODO or STATUS files for things that have already been thought about, but just are not done yet?Craig |
