Re: [data-dev] How can I start contributing?

[Juan esteban Euse peñata <eusepenata@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kyle,

Thank you very much for your welcome and guidance.

I’ve just created my Eclipse account and signed the ECA. 
I also started reading the contributing guide and exploring the Jakarta Data repository to better understand the API and structure.

I’ve added the August 20th meeting to my calendar and will do my best to join. 
In the meantime, I’ll keep an eye on the `good first issue` label.

If no issues are currently marked that way, would it be helpful to contribute with tasks like improving documentation, adding tests, or reviewing existing code while I get more familiar with the project?

Looking forward to collaborating with the Jakarta Data team!

Best regards, 
Juan Esteban

El dom, 20 de jul de 2025, 10:21 a. m., Kyle Aure <kylejaure@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

Hello Juan,

Thanks for your interest in contributing to Jakarta Data!

You will need to start by reading through the contributing guide here: https://github.com/jakartaee/data/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.adoc

Specifically, the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) section where you will need to create an eclipse account, and sign the ECA.

If you have contributed to any other eclipse projects you may have already done this. 

We typically host a call every other week on Wednesday were we discuss issues and pull requests which is open to join here: 

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src="">

Our next meeting is August 20th, we have cancelled a couple meetings while the platform works on migrating to the new Sonatype Central Publishing plugin.

As for issues you can work on I'll add an agenda item to our next meeting to discuss marking appropriate issues with the `good first issue` label to aid in directing new contributors.

So keep an eye on this list: https://github.com/jakartaee/data/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc%20is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22

In the meantime, I suspect the other contributors to Jakarta Data might reply to this email thread with their own ideas of issues that might be good to start with. 

Thanks,

Kyle Jon Aure

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM Juan esteban Euse peñata via data-dev <data-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Juan Esteban, I am a software developer from Colombia. I mainly work with Jakarta EE and Java. I'm very interested in contributing to Jakarta Data.

I don't speak English fluently, but I can read and understand technical documentation. I would like to help with small tasks to start learning and contributing to the project.

Could you please guide me on how to begin?

Thank you very much for your time and for the amazing work you're doing.

Best regards,  

Juan Esteban

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