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