Hi Prasanth, Great to hear, welcome to the community! :) Here is how I started: I forked Apache/ZooKeeper ( https://github.com/apache/zookeeper) to my own github repository. You can make the changes on your own fork, for example on master. When you are done, you can create a pull request on github, you'll find the button for it when you are looking at your branch on the website.
There is quite a few open issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/ZOOKEEPER/issues/ You can also create new jira's. For starters, I would recommend some very basic change, if you don't find any in the already open jira's, just create one (fixing a test is a good start). Basically this is all you need to start. When you checkout ZooKeeper, you can run "ant eclipse" which will generate a .project file for you, you can also import it in idea. (If you haven't already) Unit tests run for an extended time due to mixing unit tests with integration tests (there is a plan to seperate them). So be vary. Once you create a pull request, we will review it (usually reviews come quite quick, but you can ping us here in the mailing list). A committer will need to commit your change. This could take more time due to various reasons (for example we are in the middle of a new release right now). Also, it is probably a good idea to also have the fix for older branches like 3.5 and 3.4, but usually 3.5 is compatible with master, and 3.4 is not always required. Just create the PR for master and we will have. I hope this helps! Regards, Norbert On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:20 AM Prasanth Mathialagan < prasanthmathiala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings!! > > I have been working with Zookeeper for a while and I would love to know > more and contribute. I got good experience with distributed systems through > my Masters in Computer Science. I was thinking that I could improve the > test cases or add more tests so that I can understand ZK better but I don't > know where to start. It would be helpful if you guys can provide a starting > point. I am happy to fix long standing bugs as well. > > Regards, > Prasanth >
