James PearceFounder at TinyBase, ex-Eng Director at Meta
Introduction
A Quick Intro To Open Source
Why Work On Open Source?
Finding A Repository
Deciding How To Participate
Learning The Codebase
Making Contributions
Conclusion
Be Like Water
It's hard to play well with others when we're very stubborn. Instead, "be like water":
- Adapt our contributions to fit the project's philosophy and guidelines.
- Observe and learn from other successful pull requests in the project.
- Be patient and work with the maintainers to get our changes approved.
The viral bad pull request mentioned: https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354
The full process of making a contribution in a big, scary project: Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor
Connect with James:
- GitHub: https://github.com/jamesgpearce
- Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/jamespearce
