Just a quick note, still learning my way through kotlin, kobalt and IntelliJ, quite a steep learning curve. And I am a little busy in between jobs for the next couple of weeks, but would like to try to make progress anyways. Cedric you are so gracious to respond to very beginner question:) Right now my objective is to try to master Kobalt as a user. Say can a simple programmer wanting to maintain a java library package replace maven with kobalt and be productive ? Definitely in the long run kobalt's design should be better but in the long run we're all dead ... I think the most productive way to contribute currently is to do the QA part about onboarding experience and maybe suggest updates to the "getting started" docs , I'll create an issue in github