Prabaharan Gopalan wrote:
All, I wish to be part of the JBoss community and contribute in whatever ways I can. So, i started out by checking out the source from SVN ( http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/build ) and following the readme, executed build.bat.
By the way, to build AS6 from source, I usually just run the following command from the trunk root:
mvn clean install
You need Maven 3 to build the code. The build.bat just sets up the appropriate paths for Maven binary (which is made available in the tools folder of the source).
If you want to contribute to some bug fixes or something more then feel free to ask here or the IRC channels. For AS6, these are some of the bugs that are currently open https://issues.jboss.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+JBAS+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%226.1.0%22+AND+status+%3D+Open+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide. If any of those interests you, then let us know.
Also, here are a couple of things to get you started with contributing to JBoss:
http://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToContribute (some info on that wiki might be outdated but you'll get an idea on how things work)
https://www.jboss.org/contribute/