On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Piotr Steininger <piotr.steininger@gmail.com> wrote:

Seam Team,

My name is Piotr (Peter) Steininger and I am a former Amentra/RedHat consultant living in the Washington, DC area. I've worked on a number of consulting projects using Seam 2 as a solutions architect and a tech/dev lead. I learned to love a lot of Seam's features (and got to know a lot of it inside and out), and got to experience many challenges of using Seam in (both technical and political). Since the experience I gained has been paying my bills for a while, I feel that this is the time to pay back, and invest my time and skills into Seam and Weld, which I am very excited about and want to promote for future projects.

Awesome!

So I'd like to contribute to Seam 3 code in some way, to accelerate the time line. I would also love to help build some solid examples (beyond booking, number guess, etc - something with hands and legs - I have a few ideas, which I'll be putting down on paper pretty soon).

Sounds like exactly what we need ;)

I checked out the sources for modules one by one, but I can't seem to build some of them (ie. seam-bpm). Maven complains that it can't find seam-parent:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT. I found a trace of it on repository.sonatype.org (http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/org/jboss/seam/seam-parent/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/), but no pom, just metadata.
How can I get around it?

I have to admit I am totally new to the process of contributing to open-source since I've been on consulting gigs pretty much behind closed doors, so I am not sure where to start. I tried to find some more detailed developer docs, but I probably did not dig deep enough.

I appreciate in advance any advice and direction.

We are just getting Seam 3 off the ground, as you can tell. Some of it is not flying yet. The best thing to do is hop on the #seam-dev IRC channel since the best documentation is real-time help.

We love your enthusiasm and request your patience since you are going to be part of the lift off process ;)