This page is meant to document the various steps to working with git to contribute or review Kafka code. There are probably a lot of bugs in these steps or possible better recipes, so help make this page better. If you want to push your commits without passwd, please see apache git wiki.
Overview
The Kafka project development ecosystem involves git (for version control), JIRA (for issue tracking) and either GitHub pull requests or Review Board (for reviewing code changes made by contributors).
Patch Review Tool
We are currently in the process of moving our contribution workflow to Github pull requests, so the patch review tool is slowly getting phased out. If you are still interested in using it, or learning more about it, you can find the instructions here.
Contributor and Reviewer Workflow
The process for contributing or reviewing a patch is documented in the Contributing Code Changes page.
Committer Workflow
If you are merging a patch attached to a JIRA (and not a GitHub PR), here is a suggested workflow.
Instructions on merging a GitHub pull requests using the awesome kafka-merge-pr tool, are here.
How to get your patches reviewed
Please ping the dev mailing list if you have a patch that needs a review and it will be added to the queue. The following (JIRA link) are issues that currently have patches available and have an assigned reviewer:
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