July2015 Hackathon

Who

Anyone who is interested in contributing to open source.

Where 

When 

Sat July 11, 2015 10:00am – 5:00pm India Standard Time

Tips for Hackathon

How do I start -

• Target a JIRA of your interest
• Assign to yourself or drop a note in comment section
• Start work
• Post patch on Review Board
• Repeat 

Ideas/Areas to work-

• For adding new driver : The doc available at Lens Driver
• Support for new storage : HBase, Cassandra etc.
• Support for new drivers : Spark SQL, Druid, Drill, Elastic Search etc.
• Improve Query Statistics and Analytics.
• Query cost estimation.
• Improving Lens Web interface.
• Or, Anything that you find interesting.

Dev setup : http://lens.incubator.apache.org/developer/contribute.html#Development_Environment_Setup

Building : http://lens.incubator.apache.org/developer/contribute.html#Building_from_source

Docker setup : http://lens.incubator.apache.org/lenshome/pseudo-distributed-setup.html

Would request first timers to be ready with building from source or docker setup done, sothat you save time during hackathon.

For newbies :

Get started with dev setup and building from source or docker setup.

Steps for Newbies to break the surface -

• Subscribe to Dev and User mailing list
• Ensure you have Java 7, Maven 3.0+ and Git setup
• Clone Apache Lens repo - 
  • $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-lens.git
• Check the README.md file in the incubator-lens directory cloned.
• Pick up a JIRA of your interest from Apache Lens - JIRA
• Reach out experienced contributors in case you stumble upon anything.
• Have Fun.

Here are all the jiras marked with Hackathon-July label : 

Newbie jiras labelled here -