Thanks for the reply. > ...I cold not find the mail you may be referring too.
That is strange, I am not sure why you didn't receive it. I sent it on June 29th and it shows up in the mailing list archive. Anyhow, I figured it was just a really busy time and have now followed up. Thanks, Matt ------ Original Message ------ >From "Jochen Theodorou" <[email protected]> To [email protected] Date 8/16/2026 5:37:30 AM Subject Re: Getting contributor access to GitHub and Jira > > >Hi, > > > >answers inline. > > > >On 8/16/26 01:28, Matt M wrote: >> >> Hey folks, >> >> >> >> I sent an email a short while back on contributing to the Groovy >> >> programming language, but didn't get any reply back. Folks were >> >> probably super busy at the time, so I thought I'd follow-up. > > > >sorry about that. I tried looking, but I cold not find the mail you may > >be referring too. This mail also had been in my spam folder, maybe that > >is what did happen. > > >> >> I'd like to help contribute to the GitHub repo and Jira. I have a few >> >> smaller, pretty straightforward, changes that I'd love to share out >> >> (and file some tickets) to get some feedback on. Maybe see if there’s >> >> any interest in getting them added. Whenever is applicable, of course. >> >> >> >> If there is any paperwork or CLA's to sign, I would be happy to do >> >> that too.>> If someone could give me "create a feature branch" and "open PR” >> >> access on GitHub (my username is https://github.com/MattMicheletti), >> >> that would be appreciated. I am not sure what is needed for Jira. > > > >Paul can surely explain this better than I, but normally for the > >repository this is the process: > >(0) create JIRA tickets > >(1) fork the main repository and make PRs from there to the main repository > >(2) if there are several good PRs you get invited by us > >(3) you should then sign the Apache Software Foundation CLA > >(4) you now have commit rights. > > > >As for JIRA. Use https://selfserve.apache.org/jira-account.html to > >request JIRA access, which we grant independent of if you just want to > >write an issue or contribute code. > > > >Depending on the issue there can be lengthy discussions on github and or > >here. Please be sure that we do that only to try to keep the project > >maintainable, not because someone dislikes you. Yesterday I spend for > >example about 4h for a review and left roughly 17 comments. And that was > >already the second iteration and it was on a PR from a long term > >committer. Other PRs may just go through without discussion. Also if > >there is no reaction you should do what you did now and ask back. It can > >happen that a mail gets ignored for one or the other reason. Just give > >it 48h or so before you ask. > > > >bye Jochen
