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My first OSS project contributions went like this: * Start using some software that I liked * Read the documentation and notice poor grammar, punctuation, typ
by dabiged 4y ago
My first OSS project contributions went like this:
* Start using some software that I liked
* Read the documentation and notice poor grammar, punctuation, typos etc.
* submit PR for documentation (man pages, comment lines etc.)
* get PR merged and introduced to the dev team.
* submit more small PRs that are code based (expand existing classes, add minor features) etc.
* the maintainers will generally give feedback that your code doesn't fit into style guides, linters, case conventions etc. So patch it up and get it merged.
* Now you can pretty much do whatever. Test the code on Arm64. Add new OSes to their build pipeline.
My advice: Start small. Actually talk to the maintainers.