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Posted to dev@pulsar.apache.org by Kiryl Valkovich <vi...@gmail.com> on 2024/03/02 14:00:42 UTC

Idea: Add a "From zero to hero" contributor roadmap article

Imagine that you are a Pulsar user or interested in data streaming in general and would like to contribute to some related open-source project.
You have some prior programming experience but you've worked on other kinds of projects and never developed distributed streaming systems.
The current documentation doesn't describe the prior knowledge list recommended to contribute to Pulsar.
Having a clear roadmap of what to learn and where to start would bring more contributors to the project.
It may have a similar format:
    •  Java
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Concurrency and Parallelism
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Networking
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Data streaming
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Cyber-security
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Storage and Bookkeeper
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Pulsar internals
Recommended resources:
...
    •  Important libraries to know
        •  Netty
        •  Jetty
        •  Lombok
...
    •  Issue list for starting contributing
...
Of course, it takes time to learn these things and can add some additional load on the PR reviewers' shoulders at first. But it also could help to grow a new wave of contributors who are loyal to the project from the beginning, which is important for growing the Pulsar contributors community.

Discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/discussions/22176


Best,
Kiryl

Re: Idea: Add a "From zero to hero" contributor roadmap article

Posted by 太上玄元道君 <da...@apache.org>.

I support
Pulsar is a very complex software, structuring this knowledge will be very
helpful

Kiryl Valkovich <vi...@gmail.com>于2024年3月2日 周六22:01写道：

> Imagine that you are a Pulsar user or interested in data streaming in
> general and would like to contribute to some related open-source project.
> You have some prior programming experience but you've worked on other
> kinds of projects and never developed distributed streaming systems.
> The current documentation doesn't describe the prior knowledge list
> recommended to contribute to Pulsar.
> Having a clear roadmap of what to learn and where to start would bring
> more contributors to the project.
> It may have a similar format:
>     •  Java
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Concurrency and Parallelism
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Networking
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Data streaming
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Cyber-security
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Storage and Bookkeeper
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Pulsar internals
> Recommended resources:
> ...
>     •  Important libraries to know
>         •  Netty
>         •  Jetty
>         •  Lombok
> ...
>     •  Issue list for starting contributing
> ...
> Of course, it takes time to learn these things and can add some additional
> load on the PR reviewers' shoulders at first. But it also could help to
> grow a new wave of contributors who are loyal to the project from the
> beginning, which is important for growing the Pulsar contributors community.
>
> Discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/discussions/22176
>
>
> Best,
> Kiryl