Thanks for choosing Pentaho Data Integration and joining a huge community of users and developers contributing to the long-term success of this project. Your contributions will help us innovate and improve every day.

Here are some instructions to help you engage and move our collective project forward.

Matt Casters, Chief of data integration at Pentaho and Pedro Alves, SVP Community at Pentaho

Getting Started

New user? Want to know how to get started? Check out our documentation. These documents are also available in the Pentaho Data Integration installation directory, under docs/.

Documentation

Both the Pentaho InfoCenter and the Kettle Wiki are extensive repositories of information. To learn more spend time navigating content through these important links.

Samples

PDI is bundled with numerous samples. To view, from the menu bar, click on File > Import from an XML file and navigate to the samples under your PDI installation directory.

Forums

The Pentaho forums are an excellent resource not only to get help from experts but also to pass on your expertise to less experienced users

IRC

Internet Relay Chat, aka facebook of the 90’s. Good old IRC surprisingly is not dead. On the contrary, since generic “chit-chat” moved, it’s one of the best technical resources for real-time collaborative communication.

Use your favorite client to meet us on server irc.freenode.net, channel ##pentaho or use the webchat client

Mailing List

This is the core developers’ classic communication. To engage in low level coding and architecture decisions, this is the way to go.

Jira

Think you found a bug? Report it! We might not know about it and it’s the simplest way to help with the project.

Get the Source

Want to build kettle from source? Get it from svn at svn://source.pentaho.org/svnkettleroot/. Bring the bug fixes on.

Continuous Integration

Curious about what the next version will look like? Want to see if a bug is fixed? Download and test the most up to date version from our CI builds

Build Your Own Plugin

Can’t find a particular step? If you have some Java knowledge go ahead and build it! PDI is a pluggable platform, and it’s simple to add new steps. We’ll help you with the process and then go ahead and submit it back to the community.

Blogs

Follow some of our most active bloggers

Books

Take a look at our literature on Kettle

Get in Touch

Want to get in touch with comments, suggestions? We would love to hear from you.