If you already have do not have ASF JIRA account, use https://selfserve.apache.org/jira-account.html to request a new one before going to the next step.

Once you have an ASF JIRA account, send out an introduction email to the project's dev mailing list (at first: subscribe) with a request for contributors permissions. PMCs should handle this request and grant contributor access to a new community member.If you do not have ASF JIRA account, mention this in the introduction email to the project dev mailing list (at first: subscribe) along with new Jira preferable username, and your full display name (if differs from email signature). It's better to use personal (not corporate) emails to send such requests.Оne of the PMC should handle this request and create the account for you and provide permissions.