Hello all,  I would like to know how I can assist with the Hadoop project? It doesn't matter in what capacity. I just want to help out with whatever is needed.

Thanks,

Clay McDonald

 

On 8 August 2012 10:23, Clay McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hello all,  I would like to know how I can assist with the Hadoop project?
> It doesn't matter in what capacity. I just want to help out with whatever
> is needed.
>
>
One way that can benefit you and the source is to grab the alpha/beta
releases and use them -find bugs, file bugreps, make sure your code works.
Fixes go in fastest at this time.

If you can provide patches, even better -but reporting problems in betas is
valuable on its own
> Thanks,
>
> Clay McDonald
>
>
>

Hi Steve,

On the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute) it says
that most development is done in Trunk.

Let's say a bug is found in 2.0.0-alpha-rc1. Should it then be fixed in
2.0.0-alpha-rc1? How is this fix then applied to Trunk?

Regards,

Deepak

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On 8 August 2012 10:23, Clay McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello all,  I would like to know how I can assist with the Hadoop
> project?
> > It doesn't matter in what capacity. I just want to help out with whatever
> > is needed.
> >
> >
> One way that can benefit you and the source is to grab the alpha/beta
> releases and use them -find bugs, file bugreps, make sure your code works.
> Fixes go in fastest at this time.
>
> If you can provide patches, even better -but reporting problems in betas is
> valuable on its own
>
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Clay McDonald
> >
> >
> >
>

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Deepak Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute) it says
> that most development is done in Trunk.
>
> Let's say a bug is found in 2.0.0-alpha-rc1. Should it then be fixed in
> 2.0.0-alpha-rc1? How is this fix then applied to Trunk?

Patches get applied to trunk first, then if they're needed for a
specific release branch they'll get applied to that branch as well. In
the very unusual case that a bug is only in the release branch then
whoever is managing the release would take care of applying the patch
to the branch.

As a beginning contributor I (and you, I hope!) just post patches to a
Jira and, once the patch is in good enough shape with reviews and
passes Jenkins, a committer takes care of the rest of the process.

-andy