Contributing to Kafka

Before opening a pull request, review the Contributing and Contributing Code Changes pages.

It lists steps that are required before creating a PR.

When you contribute code, you affirm that the contribution is your original work and that you license the work to the project under the project's open source license. Whether or not you state this explicitly, by submitting any copyrighted material via pull request, email, or other means you agree to license the material under the project's open source license and warrant that you have the legal authority to do so.