Apache Commons – On Volunteering

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It's an assembly of components each with its own little community of users, developers and committers. Of course, there is some overlap between components and an <i>espirit de corps</i> but Commons is a big, busy Bazaar. </p> <p> So, one FAQ is - <i>I'd like to help but how do I volunteer?</i> Hopefully people asking this have already browsed through the <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html"> general Apache documentation</a> but are having troubles getting a grip on Commons. </p> <p> Luckily Craig R. McClanahan posted an excellent answer to this very question to the commons-dev list - <i>so why not get involved?!</i> </p> <code> <p> </p> <div> <pre> 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. </pre></div> <p> </p> <div> <pre>Hello Prabhat, The best way to contribute is to identify for yourself things that you think are broken, or could be improved, and then propose a patch. A couple 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 </pre></div> (*) N.B. 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