Re: [hibernate-dev] introduction newbie

Hi Vaibhav, welcome, I'm glad you want to help with Hibernate Search! But I'm afraid we don't maintain diagrams of the internal architecture. I would suggest to start getting familiar with it by using it, and trying to figure out how it works by debugging, writing tests or exploring the source code. Using it in a project you work on is usually very effective as well. The code base is quite large so I would not suggest to try reading it all. A good approach could be to try fixing a simple issue - you can find many open tasks on our JIRA - by writing a unit test first and then trying to figure out how to create a fix for it. This is a list of open JIRA issues which we *think* might be a good starting point for developers new to the project: - https://hibernate.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=11250 When you think you have a great patch to share send a pull request (make sure to include tests, javadoc and documentation changes if any are necessary). Some other person will eventually volunteer to review your changes, and possibly suggest improvements or give you other advice based on their longer experience with the project. It's possible your pull request will require improvements or not be merged, but there's nothing to be ashamed of we all learn that way. Thanks, Sanne On 1 March 2017 at 12:39, vaibhav kulkarni <vcharmcaster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: