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24 Pull Requests - Giving gifts of code back for Christmas

94 points by andrewnez 13y ago

andrewnez 13y ago
We're doing 24 Pull requests again this year, last year 881 developers submitted 3210 pull requests to 1521 different open source projects, which was a great success. Comment thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853864
Cakez0r 13y ago
I think more people might take part if it was less intense. It's going to be hard to learn multiple code bases and submit a meaningful pull request every day if you're full-time employed. 12 days of Christmas, 12 pull requests!
- k-mcgrady 13y ago
  >> "submit a meaningful pull request" Might be a chance to get some of the less meaningful bugs fixed in projects (the kind of things people ignore because they aren't interesting enough). >> "It's going to be hard to learn multiple code bases" Why not contribute to projects you use regularly and therefore already know the codebase quite well?
- pyre 13y ago
  As I've stated elsewhere, I've come across a ton of out-of-date documentation on projects. Just submitting a one or two line change to a README that has wrong information is helpful. For example: https://github.com/trek/grunt-neuter/pull/41 https://github.com/trek/grunt-neuter/pull/41 or https://github.com/sakatam/grunt-webmake/pull/1 https://github.com/sakatam/grunt-webmake/pull/1 Another thing that I've found severely lacking is examples of complex data setups in ember-data. I'm currently working on a complex app in Ember, but don't have the outside time to boil my misgivings into examples (yet).
  - Cakez0r 13y ago
    Yeah, but you still need to learn how the project works to update the docs. If you're a contributor 8 different projects already, then it might not be too unrealistic to submit 3 pull requests for each over the course of 24 days. But if somebody already knows their way around 8 open source projects then this initiative probably isn't aimed at them.
k-mcgrady 13y ago
Just signed up. I've only made a couple of very minor contributions to OSS projects before and want to contribute more. This seems like a good place to start and the fact that it's actually suggested projects based on my known languages is helpful.
leokun 13y ago
Eh, pull requests can actually create a lot of work for an OSS project, especially if they are not very good. So make sure the project wants your help, you understand what they want, and opt for quality over the number of pull requests.
- pyre 13y ago
  My two most recent pull requests were for README's that were out of date with the code (e.g. CLI options that were removed, examples code that doesn't work). These are just as helpful.
- daleharvey 13y ago
  Its opt in ...
sergiotapia 13y ago
For easy, and just as meaningful contributions update your favorite projects README file. Many times the README is outdated, confusing, or missing a necessary example. It helps a lot of people when starting out with a project.
brickcap 13y ago
I need help with my project https://github.com/brickcap/wrinqle https://github.com/brickcap/wrinqle The goal of wrinqle is to provide an easy way to facilitate communication between web sockets connected to the same server. I am new to erlang development.I need someone to review my code and help me in writing unit tests for gen_events. Side note: I wish 24pullrequests allowed more than 200 characters :( Any way very nice website. Thanks.
kibwen 13y ago
A plea to the site developers: on the "Suggest a Project" page, please expand the whitelist of allowed programming languages in the mandatory "Main language" field. It is currently impossible to suggest any project whose main language is, for example, D, Nimrod, or Rust. I would suggest reusing Github's own master list of languages, as displayed in the "Other: Languages" dropdown on https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending .
- jdminhbg 13y ago
  Good idea for a pull request: https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests
  - kibwen 13y ago
    Done: https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests/pull/336 https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests/pull/336 Does that count as my first day of contributions? :)
gault8121 13y ago
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94 points by andrewnez 13y ago

We're doing 24 Pull requests again this year, last year 881 developers submitted 3210 pull requests to 1521 different open source projects, which was a great success. Comment thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853864

Cakez0r 13y ago

I think more people might take part if it was less intense. It's going to be hard to learn multiple code bases and submit a meaningful pull request every day if you're full-time employed. 12 days of Christmas, 12 pull requests!

k-mcgrady 13y ago
>> "submit a meaningful pull request" Might be a chance to get some of the less meaningful bugs fixed in projects (the kind of things people ignore because they aren't interesting enough). >> "It's going to be hard to learn multiple code bases" Why not contribute to projects you use regularly and therefore already know the codebase quite well?
pyre 13y ago
As I've stated elsewhere, I've come across a ton of out-of-date documentation on projects. Just submitting a one or two line change to a README that has wrong information is helpful. For example: https://github.com/trek/grunt-neuter/pull/41 https://github.com/trek/grunt-neuter/pull/41 or https://github.com/sakatam/grunt-webmake/pull/1 https://github.com/sakatam/grunt-webmake/pull/1 Another thing that I've found severely lacking is examples of complex data setups in ember-data. I'm currently working on a complex app in Ember, but don't have the outside time to boil my misgivings into examples (yet).
- Cakez0r 13y ago
  Yeah, but you still need to learn how the project works to update the docs. If you're a contributor 8 different projects already, then it might not be too unrealistic to submit 3 pull requests for each over the course of 24 days. But if somebody already knows their way around 8 open source projects then this initiative probably isn't aimed at them.

k-mcgrady 13y ago

Just signed up. I've only made a couple of very minor contributions to OSS projects before and want to contribute more. This seems like a good place to start and the fact that it's actually suggested projects based on my known languages is helpful.

leokun 13y ago

Eh, pull requests can actually create a lot of work for an OSS project, especially if they are not very good. So make sure the project wants your help, you understand what they want, and opt for quality over the number of pull requests.

pyre 13y ago
My two most recent pull requests were for README's that were out of date with the code (e.g. CLI options that were removed, examples code that doesn't work). These are just as helpful.
daleharvey 13y ago
Its opt in ...

sergiotapia 13y ago

For easy, and just as meaningful contributions update your favorite projects README file. Many times the README is outdated, confusing, or missing a necessary example. It helps a lot of people when starting out with a project.

brickcap 13y ago

I need help with my project https://github.com/brickcap/wrinqle https://github.com/brickcap/wrinqle The goal of wrinqle is to provide an easy way to facilitate communication between web sockets connected to the same server. I am new to erlang development.I need someone to review my code and help me in writing unit tests for gen_events. Side note: I wish 24pullrequests allowed more than 200 characters :( Any way very nice website. Thanks.

kibwen 13y ago

A plea to the site developers: on the "Suggest a Project" page, please expand the whitelist of allowed programming languages in the mandatory "Main language" field. It is currently impossible to suggest any project whose main language is, for example, D, Nimrod, or Rust. I would suggest reusing Github's own master list of languages, as displayed in the "Other: Languages" dropdown on https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending .

jdminhbg 13y ago
Good idea for a pull request: https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests
- kibwen 13y ago
  Done: https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests/pull/336 https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests/pull/336 Does that count as my first day of contributions? :)

gault8121 13y ago

If you're interested in interactive education please check out Quill. http://www.quill.org http://www.quill.org https://github.com/empirical-org/quill https://github.com/empirical-org/quill Quill provides personalized grammar lessons. Students using Quill proofread passages and write sentences. Quill is a free tool and features 42 CCSS lessons. We are a nonprofit organization, and 1,000 students have completed a lesson in Quill.