Yeah that was more or less what I was proposing. I posted my random ideas in the other thread, let me know what you think.
-Jay On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Philip O'Toole <philip_o_to...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > That sounds great -- I do think documentation is always very important (I've > had some ideas, but that's for another time). > > I would be very interested in more ideas around what you think is missing > from the eco-system. That way people get to contribute, but can deepen their > understanding in their chosen field. For example, I've started writing more > and more Go recently, and would like to write more. So working with Kafka > (tools, clients, monitoring), but coding in Go, would be appealing. Others > will have other preferences, I am sure. > > > Philip > > > --------------------------- > www.philipotoole.com > > > > On Friday, July 18, 2014 2:12 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey Philip, > > That is awesome! You actually don't have to write Java or Scala code > to contribute. > > There is the usual thing that presentations (which you are already > doing), improving website docs, and general community participation > are all at least as valuable as new code. > > However in addition to that, one of the things that actually makes > Kafka useful is the non-java clients. Actually since our hope is to > make Kafka effective as a centralized data pipeline, this is one of > the more critical things (if you can't easily integrate all your > applications with the pipeline because there isn't a client or it > isn't good then this falls apart). I think there is a ton of room to > improve the client ecosystem. I will post some of the ideas I have in > this area in a separate thread to kick off a discussion. > > -Jay > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Philip O'Toole > <philip_o_to...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: >> First things first. I friggin' think Kafka rocks. It's a system that have >> given me a lot of joy, and I've spent a lot of fun hours (and sometimes not >> so fun) looking at consumer lag metrics. I'd like to give back, beyond >> spreading the gospel about it architecturally and operationally. >> >> >> My only concern is Scala. I know very little about it, except that it's a >> JVM-based language. And there's the rub. I really do not like Java. I hate >> that it's next to impossible to code it without an IDE (so many files, so >> many Manager classes, so many...). I find Java to have this super high >> type-to-thought ratio. Would you guys have anything to say about Scala >> compared to Java? How has your experience been with coding in it, and >> building large systems with it? >> >> >> Philip >> >> >> >> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:33 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hey All, >> >> Wow, glad that there is so much interest. >> >> As people mentioned a good place to get started to kind of learn the >> basics of the code base are the newbie and newbie++ JIRAs: >> http://bit.ly/1jR3lyJ >> >> If you take on any of these and get stuck we are very happy to help >> you get unstuck. Feel free to reach out to the mailing list, or, I >> really like Neha's idea of pairing people up with existing committers. >> >> When you feel like you have gotten the basics down of how to >> contribute a patch and can kind of find your way around the code base, >> you may be looking for something a little more challenging. There are >> two approaches here, you may have some existing things you would like >> to fix or change in Kafka. If this is the case just discuss it on the >> mailing list or a JIRA, get basic consensus on the approach, and then >> dive in. For some though they may not have a specific project in mind, >> if this applies to you we have a huge backlog of good project/feature >> ideas in mind and can help put something together that is appropriate >> for your interests, level of expertise, time commitment, etc. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -Jay >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Thanks Jay for bringing this up. A couple things might help - >>> >>> 1. Be diligent in marking newbie/newbie++ labels. I've seen us do pretty >>> well here. >>> 2. Pair up contributors to committers for a few initial patches to ensure a >>> smoother ramp up. I've recently done this and have seen it work pretty >>> well. Happy to help more. >>> 3. Jay and I talked about ways of improving patch review turnaround time. >>> Mostly, the problem is that committers are either swamped or not sure which >>> patches need review. What might work is to assign the JIRA to a committer >>> for review and have the committer shepherd the patch to checkin and >>> reassign the JIRA back to the contributor. I can help with triaging and >>> assigning committers to patch reviews and over time most of the committers >>> will be able to do this. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Neha >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:26 PM, pushkar priyadarshi < >>> priyadarshi.push...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have been using kafka for quite some time now and would really be >>>> interested to contribute to this awesome code base. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Pushkar >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: >>>> >>>> > ./gradlew scaladoc >>>> > >>>> > Builds the scala doc, perhaps we can start to publish this again with the >>>> > next release and link it on the website. For more related check out the >>>> > README >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > /******************************************* >>>> > Joe Stein >>>> > Founder, Principal Consultant >>>> > Big Data Open Source Security LLC >>>> > http://www.stealth.ly >>>> > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> >>>> > ********************************************/ >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:39 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> >>>> > wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > Is there a scala API doc for the entire kafka library? >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:34 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> >>>> > > wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > > Hi Jay, >>>> > > > >>>> > > > I would like to take a look at the code base and maybe start working >>>> on >>>> > > > some jiras. >>>> > > > >>>> > > > Best, >>>> > > > Siyuan >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> >>>> > wrote: >>>> > > > >>>> > > >> Hey All, >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> A number of people have been submitting really nice patches >>>> recently. >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> If you are interested in contributing and are looking for something >>>> to >>>> > > >> work on, or if you are contributing and are interested in ramping up >>>> > > >> to be a committer on the project, please let us know--we are happy >>>> to >>>> > > >> help you help us :-). It is often hard to know what JIRAs or >>>> projects >>>> > > >> would be good to work on, how hard those will be, and where to get >>>> > > >> started. Feel free to reach out to me, Neha, Jun, or any of the >>>> other >>>> > > >> committers for help with this. >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> Cheers, >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> -Jay >>>> > > >> >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > >>>> > >>>>
