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Nikita Kokitkar
03/01/2021, 6:04 PMI am interested in contributing to the Airbyte core. Pointers to a good first project for getting started would be great 😄
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03/01/2021, 6:04 PMhi glad to hear it!
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03/01/2021, 6:05 PMis there a reason you are particularly interested in contributing to core versus starting with a connector?
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03/01/2021, 6:06 PMI thought I could start with a connector
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03/01/2021, 6:06 PMI ask this because in general our best getting started docs are related to building sources. Working in core generally requires getting a lot more context to get started.
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03/01/2021, 6:06 PMBut eventually move to contributing to the core
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03/01/2021, 6:06 PMGreat! I think this is a good path.
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03/01/2021, 6:07 PMIs there any connector I could start with?
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03/01/2021, 6:07 PMDo you have a source in mind that you'd be interested in building? We can look for suggestions in our backlog, but if there's a source you know pretty well because you've used it before, that's going to be the best place to start.
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03/01/2021, 6:08 PMI don't have any particular source in mind. Anything from the backlog will do
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03/01/2021, 6:08 PMIf there's one I am familiar with, I can pick that
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03/01/2021, 6:09 PMdo you have a language you prefer working in?
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03/01/2021, 6:09 PMJava or Python
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03/01/2021, 6:10 PMLittle bit familiar with golang
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03/01/2021, 6:12 PMso we have a couple java sources that we'd love to knock out, but they're probably only the right thing if you've used them before. mongo db and oracle db are both on that list. have you worked with either of those dbs before?
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03/01/2021, 6:12 PMMongoDb - a bit
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03/01/2021, 6:14 PMthat would be a valuable one. is that interesting to you? if not, no worries at all, we can find an API based source instead.
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03/01/2021, 6:15 PMI can work on this source
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03/01/2021, 6:19 PMnice!
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03/01/2021, 6:19 PMhere's the issue we are using to track it https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/441
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03/01/2021, 6:20 PMwe have this base class called AbstractJdbcSource that we try to use when building sources for database connectors because it allows us to avoid having to rewrite a lot of logic each time.
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03/01/2021, 6:21 PMI would suggest you check out the code for the existing Postgres Source (it uses AbstractJdbcSournce--in fact postgres, mysql, mssql, and redshift all leverage this class!). You can hopefully pretty much pattern match doing MongoDb base on the existing Postgres source.
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03/01/2021, 6:22 PMI think that'll be a good place to start. I'm happy to help you out wherever I can!
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03/01/2021, 6:24 PMThanks for the pointers! I will have a look at the existing ones
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03/02/2021, 3:30 PMHow's it going? Were you able to make progress on with mongodb? I just realized we have another contributor working on it as well. 🤦♀️
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