I regularly get requests for pointers to "starter" tickets. I suggest we tag such tickets as LHF (for low-hanging fruit). I've tagged four such to get started: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+12310865+AND+labels+%3D+lhf
I'll try to keep this up to date. Aspiring contributors should also see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HowToContribute, and feel free to drop by #cassandra-dev on freenode. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com