Hey Vinothini, Hi and welcome to the Kafka community! 👋 Great to hear you're interested in contributing! Here’s how you can get started:
a. Getting Familiar with Kafka To get hands-on quickly and understand how Kafka works, we recommend starting with the Kafka Quickstart Guide [1] It walks you through setting up a Kafka broker locally, producing and consuming messages — a great way to build intuition. b. Setting Up Kafka for Local Development If you’re planning to make changes to the Kafka codebase or test patches locally: - Clone the repo [2] - Follow the Development README [3] to build the project and run a broker. This will help you: - Build Kafka from source - Run unit and integration tests - Start a Kafka broker locally with custom changes c. Exploring Good First Issues You can browse beginner-friendly issues using the newbie label on Jira [4]. We're glad to have you on board — happy learning! [1]: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#quickstart [2]: https://github.com/apache/kafka [3]: https://github.com/apache/kafka?tab=readme-ov-file#running-a-kafka-broker [4]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20newbie Sanskar Jhajharia Sr. Software Engineer @ Confluent Contact: Personal <jhajharia.sans...@gmail.com> | Official <sjhajha...@confluent.io> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM Vinothini A <vinuvas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi team, > I want to contribute to kafka. > Im a newbie may i know how to start and test the application. > > can you please help here. > > Regards, > vinothini. >
