I've found it easy with python recently. - Go on github, find the repo - Fork the repo - git clone https://github.com/me/forked_repo https://github.com/me/fo

I've found it easy with python recently. - Go on github, find the repo - Fork the repo - git clone https://github.com/me/forked_repo https://github.com/me/forked_repo - cd into the repo, and 'git checkout -b me_myfix' - write your change - cd .. - 'pip uninstall forked_repo' so that you can work with your fork's clone instead - Sometimes, if the repo has a setup.py, some symbolic linking needs to be setup so we can easily do 'import forked_repo' - use 'import forked_repo' - later, you can do 'git push origin me_myfix' and submit a pull request from Github. I think there is a better way but I did not think about this problem much. It would be nice if someone could outline how to go about this properly. And there's almost no chance I could do this with another language since I am not as comfortable with the building/packaging with other languages.