Leonardo Coelho, Software Engineer at Hitachi Vantara, and myself presented at the Kettle Community Meeting 2019 (#KCM19): How can a Community Member contribute to Pentaho?
We both think it is helpful for the community to create a blog post and list noteworthy links that we provided. It might also help to get found by *any* search engine. The full presentation with more details can be downloaded as a PDF and the recording is available on YouTube.
Links to Useful Documentation and Repositories
| Link | Description |
| https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-coding-standards | Pentaho Coding Standards |
| https://help.pentaho.com/Documentation/8.3/Developer_center/Embed_and_extend_PDI_functionality | Embed and extend PDI functionality |
| https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-engineering-samples | Pentaho Engineering Samples |
| https://github.com/pentaho/pdi-sdk-plugins | Samples as part of the PDI SDK |
| https://github.com/pentaho/maven-project-archetypes | For example, if you wanted to create a CE PDI step plugin, you would follow the instructions located in the README here: https://github.com/pentaho/maven-project-archetypes/tree/master/pentaho-pdi-step-plugin-archetype |
Main Links for Pentaho Community Contributions
| Link | Description |
| https://community.hitachivantara.com/s/pentaho | Main community web site for Pentaho, including Forums and Articles |
| https://help.pentaho.com | Pentaho Documentation (some can still be found in https://wiki.pentaho.com) |
| https://jira.pentaho.com | Where you search for and file defects, improvements, and feature requests |
| https://github.com/pentaho | Where the source code lives |
| https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/ | Site that has compiled stable binaries |
| https://nexus.pentaho.org | Artifact repository where things get resolved from |
| https://help.pentaho.com/Documentation/8.3/Developer_center | APIs, Customize Pentaho Products, Extending and Embedding (as of 8.3) |
| https://github.com/pentaho/marketplace-metadata | Pentaho Marketplace Repository (see also https://marketplace.hitachivantara.com/pentaho/ ) |