[infinispan-dev] Interested in lending a hand

[Olaf Bergner]

I've been quietly following Infinispan's progress and finally made the 
decision to offer to help out. Since I'm not an experienced system-level 
programmer - I've got a strong background in JEE application development 
- I was looking for a not too complex task to start with. I took a look 
at ISPN-272 "Implement XA recovery in TransactionXaAdapter" and if I 
interpret Manik Surtani's comments correctly it all boils down to 
essentially:

* Make it so that Xid[] recover(int flags) returns the Xids of the 
LocalTransactions managed by this TransactionXaAdapter that are 
currently in state 'PREPARED'

Is this correct? If so I thought about

1. adding a method Set<LocalTransaction> 
getLocalTransactionsCurrentlyInStatus(int desiredStatus) to 
TransactionTable, and
2. having recover(int flags) on TransactionXaAdapter delegate to this 
new method, passing in Status.STATUS_PREPARED.

So:

1. Could you use my help?
2. Is ISPN-272 a good starting point, or are there better tasks for a 
newcomer?
3. If ISPN-272 is good starting point, is my proposed solution viable, 
or is it lacking?

Regards,
Olaf