[rules-users] Call for Contributions

[Edson Tirelli]

   All,

   Right now we are putting a lot of effort in getting the BRMS 
(http://markproctor.blogspot.com/2007/02/brms-introduction-and-progress-update.html) 
finished, and that is consuming us a lot of time. On the other hand, we 
also have you helping us to test and stabilize the new version, and 
opening bug tickets.
   This situation provides a good opportunity for those that have that 
inner willing to become an open source contributor, but don't know how, 
or is a bit shy to ask. :)

   So, if you are one of these people, please come aboard and be part of 
the next Drools major release. We can promisse you will have a lot to 
learn, will reduce your sleeping hours, will lose a few pounds, but more 
importantly, will get to know new people, make new friends, increase 
your network and be known as an OSS contributor.

   We have features to develop, documentation to write and bugs to fix. 
You are welcome to help whetever you feel more comfortable. You can 
reach us here in the list, on our private e-mails and specially online 
at our IRC channel:

IRC://irc.codehaus.org:6667
#drools

look for: tirelli, conan, mic_hat, fmeyer, etc

   Bellow a sample list of bugs we have open that are quick ways to 
start, in case you are wondering what to do:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-739 - Exception reading 
PackageBuilder Errors
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-732 - Modify object 
optimization problem
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-718 - Compatibility problems 
with eval() statements
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-723 - Eclipse plugin detects 
inconsistent errors
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-704 - Drools 3.1M1 rules build 
results in UOE
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-658 - Unable to use global 
variable from inside a function
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-631 - 
Serialization/Deserialization error

   Don't be fouled, the above is no easy stuff, but otherwise it would 
not be fun, right? :)

   Regards,
    Edson

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 Edson Tirelli
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