Hi everyone, Apache Doris is taking part in the hackathon at Community over Code Glasgow 2026. Our slot is Tuesday 13 October, 11:20-15:00, in the Wee Dram Room.
The format is simple: a room, a long afternoon, and people sitting together working on real tasks. I will be there as the point of contact. If you have wanted to send a Doris PR but were not sure where to start, this is a good chance to do it with someone next to you. We will bring tasks in five areas, so there should be something whether or not you have touched the codebase before: * Multi-modal lakehouse support - connectors, scan layers, type systems. The deepest end; some C++ or Java expected. * Documentation - gaps, stale examples, shortening the getting-started path. No C++ or Java required, and newcomers are the best people to do it because you still remember what was confusing. * Visualization and tooling - the web UI and the tooling people use to observe and operate a cluster. Front-end friendly. * New SQL functions - implementing functions other engines have and we do not. Small, self-contained, and the cleanest first PR. * Something built on Doris - not a change to Doris itself but an application that shows what it can do: a hybrid search demo combining BM25 text retrieval with vector similarity over the same table, an agent using Doris as its memory, a dashboard over a lakehouse table. Any language, no engine internals needed. A curated list of specific issues will go up on our hackathon page closer to the event. One request if you are planning to come. What to prepare depends on which direction you pick: * If you plan to change Doris, get a build working beforehand using the development Docker image. A first full build is not something you want to start at 11:20 on the day. https://doris.apache.org/community/source-install/compilation-with-docker * If you plan to build something on Doris, you do not need to compile anything - just follow the quick start to get a cluster running. https://doris.apache.org/docs/gettingStarted/quick-start And if neither works out, come anyway. Documentation needs nothing but a text editor, and we can sort out builds and clusters in the room. Our hackathon page: https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/doris.html Hackathon overview, with the full project and room schedule: https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/hackathon.html Register for Community over Code: https://communityovercode.apache.org/events/glasgow-2026/register Happy to take questions here or on Slack. doris.apache.org/slack See you in Glasgow, Mingyu Chen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
