On 5/15/2014 6:10 AM, Mukundaraman valakumaresan wrote: > How to become a solr committer? Any suggestions?
For me, this question has personal relevance. In 2010, I began to integrate Solr into our environment. I joined the mailing list, asked questions, stumbled around quite a lot. Eventually I got my install working very well, and I discovered that when others would ask questions, I sometimes knew the answer, so I started answering a lot more questions than I asked. Eventually, I also joined the dev list, began to learn Java, and started contributing patches, mostly to issues that I would file myself, but sometimes for other issues. My name ended up in the CHANGES.txt more than once. A little over a year ago, the Lucene PMC asked me to become a committer. I was not pursuing this as a goal, so it was completely unexpected. I accepted the offer. My advice would be to put some serious time and effort into making Solr better. As the following wiki page says, this involves a lot more than writing code. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute Thanks, Shawn
