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How to Contribute

Apache Hudi community welcomes contributions from anyone!

Here are few ways, you can get involved.

  • Ask (and/or) answer questions on our support channels listed above.
  • Review code or RFCs
  • Help improve documentation
  • Author blogs on our wiki
  • Testing; Improving out-of-box experience by reporting bugs
  • Share new ideas/directions to pursue or propose a new RFC
  • Contributing code to the project: check out newbie JIRAs.

Become a Committer​

We are always looking for strong contributors, who can become committers on the project. Committers are chosen by a majority vote of the Apache Hudi PMC, after a discussion on their candidacy based on the following criteria (not exclusive/comprehensive).

  • Embodies the ASF model code of conduct
  • Has made significant technical contributions such as submitting PRs, filing bugs, testing, benchmarking, authoring RFCs, providing feedback/code reviews (+ more).
  • Has helped the community over a few months, by answering questions on support channels above and triaging issues/jiras.
  • Demonstrates clear code/design ownership of a component or code area (eg: Delta Streamer, Hive/Presto Integration etc).
  • Brought thought leadership and new ideas into the project and evangelized them with the community via conference talks, blog posts.
  • Great citizenship in helping with all peripheral (but very critical) work like site maintenance, wiki/jira cleanups and so on.
  • Proven commitment to the project by way of upholding all agreed upon processes, conventions and principles of the community.

Code Contributions​

Useful resources for contributing can be found under the "Quick Links" left menu. Specifically, please refer to the detailed contribution guide.

Accounts​

It's useful to obtain few accounts to be able to effectively contribute to Hudi.

  • Github account is needed to send pull requests to Hudi
  • Sign-up/in to the Apache JIRA. Then please email the dev mailing list with your username, asking to be added as a contributor to the project. This enables you to assign/be-assigned tickets and comment on them.
  • Sign-up/in to the Apache cWiki, to be able to contribute to the wiki pages/RFCs.