Hi Loknath, Thanks for your interest!
Fortunately, there are many open tickets to choose from, ranging from easy to very difficult, and covering all kinds, from bugs to new features. Personally, I would suggest for you all to start with smaller-scoped projects so that you can have a lower entry cost as you become familiar with the code base, as well as forming relationships with other contributors as they review and merge your pull requests. We use the labels "newbie" and "newbie++" to indicate tickets that we think are pretty straightforward. (The "++" means "advanced newbie"). E.g.: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10721?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20labels%20in%20(newbie%2C%20%22newbie%2B%2B%22) In addition to selecting smaller-scoped work to begin with, I'd suggest choosing tickets that were filed with a higher "Priority" value, that have a lot of comments, and that were filed more recently (and maybe have a lot of recent comments). One initial hurdle you might face is getting timely code reviews on your PRs. We all try to help foster new contributors, but it can be a challenge to pay attention to everything that's going on in such a busy project. The spirit of my recommendation is to help you find high-value tickets that other people will naturally be interested in reviewing and merging. Also, when you do send PRs, I'd suggest at-mentioning people in the PR who have recently contributed to the same files, to see if they are willing to review. You can also ask for reviews on this mailing list. If some time passes and you get no responses, please feel free to ask repeatedly. Often everyone just assumes that someone else would take a look, so if you keep asking, you'll get a review eventually. No one will take offense. Also, be sure to review the contributing guidelines to be sure you're following the correct procedures, and always feel free to ask clarifying questions on this mailing list. I hope this advice helps! Thanks, -John On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 16:21 +0530, Loknath Priyatham Teja Singamsetty wrote: > Hi Kafka Team, > > We are a team of interested people from the Salesforce company and want to > contribute to open source and want to pick up some JIRA's and start > contributing back to the community. Could you please share the JIRA's which > we can start working on. >
