Hi Tim,<br><br>Thanks alot for this information. I think as a start I would probably look at the unit testing bit and then build on that knowledge to hopefully contribute further to the project.<br><br>Kindest Regards,<br>
Shiraaz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tim Robertson (GBIF) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trobertson@gbif.org">trobertson@gbif.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Shiraaz,<br>
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Thank you for your interest in the IPT and willingness to contribute. It would be fantastic to have external contributions.<br>
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Like many open source projects, the way in which we would like to operate is to have contributors submit a patch, which would be reviewed by a committer. Following some successful patches, the contributer would be welcomed as a committer. As a fairly immature project, we don't yet have a large pool of contributers, so it is an exciting time to get involved early.<br>
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The IPT is very lacking in unit test coverage as you mention and is highlighted in sonar[1]. Increasing the unit test coverage would be a good way to really help improve the project, and learn the code structure.<br>
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We have just set up a review system[2] as well, which allows easier review of patches. I would recommend offering a patch there and we can review it.<br>
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Does this help to get started?<br>
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Many thanks again for your interest,<br>
Tim<br>
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[1] <a href="http://sonar.gbif.org/dashboard/index/1498" target="_blank">http://sonar.gbif.org/<u></u>dashboard/index/1498</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://reviews.gbif.org" target="_blank">http://reviews.gbif.org</a><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Shiraaz Moollatjie wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I am totally new to the open source development world and I noticed the gbif-providertoolkit which seems interesting to me. Since I am totally new to this (and probably breaking all sorts of etiquette involved, my apologies if I am :) ) I was wondering what I can do to get started on the project? My guess is that since I did not prove myself as a developer yet, I was hoping to maybe add some unit tests or do some documentation tasks for the project?<br>
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My apologies again if I am taking the wrong approach here. Hopefully you will give me some direction :).<br>
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Kindest Regards,<br>
Shiraaz<br>
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