This document serves as an onboarding guide to new PMC members. Please email to private@kafka.apache.org for any proposed changes to this document.


Welcome to the Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Kafka!


Understanding your role and responsibilities in Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and Apache Kafka

Before proceeding ahead with this document, please make yourself familiar with the following documents:

  1. How ASF works and where does PMC fit into the picture
  2. ASF PMC guide

Apart from the ASF guidelines, Apache Kafka defines specific roles, responsibility and processes for PMC members. These are documented at Apache Kafka Bylaws. Please familiarize yourself with them.


Additional responsibilities

This section provides guidance of some responsibilities of PMC member which are specific to Apache Kafka

Approving self service requests for Jira

ASF Infra provides guidance on what considerations to make when approving a request for a Jira account. You can find the instructions here.

Additionally, please provide the requester with the "contributors" role in Apache Kafka project in JIRA. The following steps will guide you with the steps.

  1. Go to Apache Kafka project in Jira at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA 
  2. Navigate to Project settings in the bottom left corner of the page.
  3. Select "Users and Roles"
  4. Click on "Add users to the role"
  5. Select contributors from the dropdown.



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