How to contribute to Elyra?

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If you are interested in starting to contribute to Elyra, here are some helpful initial resources:

What is Elyra

• Elyra overview video (a little outdated, but still informative on why Elyra): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGNijkV5PQ
• Other Elyra related content: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtI2X85XvmrW6lxEeg7V7lUkPOQ1bgumm

Getting started

• Elyra documentation: https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Elyra Github+README: https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra
• Elyra on Binder: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/elyra-ai/elyra/master?urlpath=lab/tree/binder-demo
• Elyra on Docker: https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html#docker

Tutorials and examples

• https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/tutorials.html
• COVID insights use cases: https://github.com/CODAIT/covid-notebooks
• Flight delays use cases: https://github.com/CODAIT/flight-delay-notebooks

Contributing to Elyra

• Code of Conduct: https://github.com/elyra-ai/community/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md
• Contribution guidelines: https://github.com/elyra-ai/community/blob/master/contributing.md
• Contributing to documentation: https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/contributing.html#contributing-to-the-elyra-documentation
• Setting up your dev environment (source code contribution): https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/development-workflow.html

Suggested Issues

• Issues tagged as Good first issue: https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
• Issues tagged as Help wanted: https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22help+wanted%22

Suggested small to medium projects

• Seamless integration with S3/COS from Elyra UI (integrated browser)
• Better support for data processing
• Data sources extension, SQL editor
• Property/Metadata inheritance / scopes
• We are also open to suggestions for new functionality and/or extensions, user experience enhancements, etc

Talking to the contributors

• Find us on gitter: https://gitter.im/elyra-ai/community
• Join our daily dev meetings: https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra#daily-dev-meetings
• Come to our weekly community dev meeting on Thursdays: https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra#weekly-dev-community-meeting

Next Steps

• Set up your development environment: https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/development-workflow.html
• Start a discussion on the issue of your interest to make sure you have appropriate information
• Create a proposed solution and submit it as a Pull Request
  • Validate your solution by providing "work in progress" or "draft" pull requests