How to Make Your 1st OpenSource Contribution
You have been hearing good things about OSS.
A solid OSS contribution will take somewhere from 3-6 months. It involves getting accustomed to the project, reading and understanding their code base, finding interesting issues, fixing the code, making a PR and fixing the reviews until the maintainers are ready to merge.
Here are the steps I would recommend
- 1.Pick an open-source project that you already use every day. For example, in Python, the easiest way is to look at your requirements file
- 2.If you already know anything you can improve, raise an issue.
- 3.Go through the Github issues. Filter by label Good first issue
- 4.If there aren't any good first issues, Go through other issues and find the ones you are interested in
- 5.Read their contributor guidelines
Contributing.mdfile - 6.Fork and clone the repo follow the setup instructions
- 7.Make the fix, add test cases, and run linters, most codebases have a dev setup
- 8.Push the PR. follow the PR and commit guidelines
- 9.Incorporate the changes that reviewers give you. Maintainers are busy, so it's a good idea to find active reviewers and mention them in PR comments for review
- 10.Merged
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