TiDB Community

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.

Architecture

See architecture for details.

TiDB User Group

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 TiDB documentation in English or Chinese. You can also get help in AskTUG.com (Chinese) if you encounter any problem.

TiDB Developer Group

Communication

The communicating.md file lists communication channels like chat, social medias, etc.

For more specific topics, join TiDB Community slack workspace and discuss with others.

Governance

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.

  See special-interest-groups for details and active SIGs.

• 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.

  See working-groups for details and active WGs.

How to contribute

Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated.

See contributors for details.

Learning Resources

Learning resources are collected in the learning-resources. Here you can find all the resources which can help you learn and contribute to TiDB. For example, you can learn the TiDB architecture through the following blog posts:

• 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

RFC

See rfc.

TiDB Roadmap

See TiDB Roadmap.

Community Activities

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

License

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

Acknowledgements

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