Yes, just elaborating on what Jochen said, you make a request for a Jira account as per the email address he mentioned.
There is no need for any special permissions to create PRs. Just fork the repo. It is the same way most of our contributions also arrive - from our forks. Committers can also created branches to aid deeper collaboration on a feature/issue but that isn't strictly needed. Cheers, Paul. On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM Matt M <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > > ...I cold not find the mail you may be referring too. > > That is strange, I am not sure why you didn't receive it. I sent it on > June 29th and it shows up in the mailing list archive. Anyhow, I > figured it was just a really busy time and have now followed up. > > Thanks, > Matt > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From "Jochen Theodorou" <[email protected]> > To [email protected] > Date 8/16/2026 5:37:30 AM > Subject Re: Getting contributor access to GitHub and Jira > > > > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > >answers inline. > > > > > > > >On 8/16/26 01:28, Matt M wrote: > >> > >> Hey folks, > >> > >> > >> > >> I sent an email a short while back on contributing to the Groovy > >> > >> programming language, but didn't get any reply back. Folks were > >> > >> probably super busy at the time, so I thought I'd follow-up. > > > > > > > >sorry about that. I tried looking, but I cold not find the mail you may > > > >be referring too. This mail also had been in my spam folder, maybe that > > > >is what did happen. > > > > > >> > >> I'd like to help contribute to the GitHub repo and Jira. I have a few > >> > >> smaller, pretty straightforward, changes that I'd love to share out > >> > >> (and file some tickets) to get some feedback on. Maybe see if there’s > >> > >> any interest in getting them added. Whenever is applicable, of course. > >> > >> > >> > >> If there is any paperwork or CLA's to sign, I would be happy to do > >> > >> that too.>> If someone could give me "create a feature branch" and "open > >> PR” > >> > >> access on GitHub (my username is https://github.com/MattMicheletti), > >> > >> that would be appreciated. I am not sure what is needed for Jira. > > > > > > > >Paul can surely explain this better than I, but normally for the > > > >repository this is the process: > > > >(0) create JIRA tickets > > > >(1) fork the main repository and make PRs from there to the main repository > > > >(2) if there are several good PRs you get invited by us > > > >(3) you should then sign the Apache Software Foundation CLA > > > >(4) you now have commit rights. > > > > > > > >As for JIRA. Use https://selfserve.apache.org/jira-account.html to > > > >request JIRA access, which we grant independent of if you just want to > > > >write an issue or contribute code. > > > > > > > >Depending on the issue there can be lengthy discussions on github and or > > > >here. Please be sure that we do that only to try to keep the project > > > >maintainable, not because someone dislikes you. Yesterday I spend for > > > >example about 4h for a review and left roughly 17 comments. And that was > > > >already the second iteration and it was on a PR from a long term > > > >committer. Other PRs may just go through without discussion. Also if > > > >there is no reaction you should do what you did now and ask back. It can > > > >happen that a mail gets ignored for one or the other reason. Just give > > > >it 48h or so before you ask. > > > > > > > >bye Jochen >
