Welcome to the TiDB Community! The main objective is to help members of the TiDB community who share similar interests to learn from and collaborate with each other.

Your journey of becoming a contributor and committer starts from here: improving docs, improving code, giving talks, organizing meetups, etc.

See TiDB Community Architecture for more details.

The TiDB User Groups (TUGs) are groups for facilitating communication and discovery of information related to topics that have long term relevance to large groups of TiDB users.

See docs or docs-cn for user documents. Also you can get help in AskTUG if you met any problem.

The communication page lists communication channels like chat, social medias, etc.

For more specific topics, join https://pingcap.com/tidbslack and discuss with others.

TiDB has the following types of groups that are officially supported:

• Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are persistent open groups that focus on a module of TiDB. SIGs must have open and transparent proceedings. The purpose of a SIG is to own and develop a module of TiDB.

• Working Groups (WGs) are temporary groups that are formed to address issues that cross SIG boundaries. Working groups do not own any code or other long term artifacts. Working groups can report back and act through involved SIGs.

Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. See How to contribute for details on setting up development environment, contribution workflow and submitting patches, etc.

Learning resources are collected in the learning resources page. Here you can find all the resources which helps you learn and contribute TiDB. For example, you can learn TiDB architecture though the following blogs:

• How we build TiDB: English, Chinese
• TiDB Internal (I) - Data Storage: English, Chinese
• TiDB Internal (II) - Computing: English, Chinese
• TiDB Internal (III) - Scheduling: English, Chinese

See RFC for RFCs for details.

See TiDB Roadmap.

• Infra Meetup
• Hackathon 2019
• Techday 2019
• Paper Reading
• Summer of code
• Performance Challenge Program
• PingCAP Talent Plan
• PingCAP Incubator Program

TiDB Community is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Thank you to the Kubernetes, Apache and Docker community pages for providing us with inspirations.