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James PearceFounder at TinyBase, ex-Eng Director at Meta

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

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