Hello Grace, thanks for your interest in Apache Kafka!
Other than the beginner's tickets marked as newbie, I suggest to also check
tickets that may not have that label but are considered Minor/Trivial (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-17936?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20in
Hello Kafka Dev Team,
I am Grace, and I’m excited about the possibility of contributing to Apache
Kafka as I continue learning more about distributed systems. I’m currently
exploring the codebase and reading through the documentation, but I’m
finding some of the beginner tickets a bit challenging.
