Thanks Neha. The instructions on the page mention that I need to be added to the contributor list before I can assign a JIRA to myself and begin work on it. Is that not the procedure? Right now I don't see an "Assign to me" link on the JIRAs (which I see in other Hadoop projects).
-Vijay On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Neha Narkhede <n...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi Vijay, > > Thanks for your interest in contributing to Kafka. Here is a link to some > newbie > < > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2059?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20labels%20in%20(newbie%2C%20%22newbie%2B%2B%22) > > > JIRAs that you can start looking into. You can follow instructions to > contribute a patch here <http://kafka.apache.org/contributing.html>. > > Thanks, > Neha > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Vijay Bhat <vijaysb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Kafka-ers, > > > > My name is Vijay Bhat and I'm very interested in contributing to the > Apache > > Kafka project. A little about myself: My background is in CS and I've > been > > focusing on Hadoop / Big Data technologies for designing scalable data > > infrastructures for the past few years. I also enjoy working on the data > > science side of things (formulating, building, testing, deploying ML > > models). I've also contributed a few patches to YARN, HDFS and Hadoop > > Common. > > > > I've read a lot about Kafka and had the chance to play around with it a > > little for one of my projects, and it seems very cool! I'd love to > > contribute to Kafka and do my part to help the project. I'd really > > appreciate it if I could be added to the contributor list. > > > > Thanks! > > Vijay > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Neha >
