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If you don't know Java or Scala you can still contribute to the project. An important area is the clients. We want to have high quality, well documented clients for each programming language. These, as well as the surrounding ecosystem of integration tools that people use with Kafka, are critical aspects of the project.

-Nor is code the only way to contribute to the project. We strongly value documentation and gladly accept patches against the docs. +Nor is code the only way to contribute to the project. We strongly value documentation and gladly accept improvements to the documentation. -

Contributing a Patch

-To submit a patch for inclusion please do the following: +

Contributing A Code Change

+ +To submit a change for inclusion, please do the following: + + +

Contributing A Change To The Website

+ +To submit a change for inclusion please do the following: + + -If you will be contributing multiple non-trivial patches it may be worth using our code review script which helps to integrate git, JIRA, and review board. You can find instructions on this tool here. -

Finding A Project To Work On

The easiest way to get started working with the code base is to pick up a really easy JIRA and work on that. This will help you get familiar with the code base, build system, review process, etc. We flag these kind of starter bugs here.