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Christian Vasquez
Christian Vasquez

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What was your first ever contribution to Open Source?

I'll start!

My first Pull Request that was ever merged was a set of translations for one of Francisco Franco's Android apps from English to Spanish, because that's my native language.

Although it wasn't a complicated task on it's own, I had no idea how Pull Requests, forks, and branches really worked back then and right after I got the email notification that it got merged I decided to learn Git more in depth by taking Udacity's Git related courses.

Needless to say, that was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

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Douglas McKechie

My first contribution to open source was literally a 1 character typo fix in the documentation for the SilverStripe framework/cms.

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Dustin King • Edited

I submitted a patch to sqlany-django, the Django database backend (aka driver) for Sybase SQLAnywhere. The database backend hadn't updated for the latest version of Django (1.4 at the time, I think), so that's what it was for. I think it was accepted as is, along with one for 1.3 that somebody had already submitted.

It was hosted on Google Code at the time.

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Ben Halpern

github.com/facebook/react/pull/5287

Updated a conference page on the React website, which was part of the main repo at the time.

My first OSS PR was 2015 and I've only made a couple of tiny contributions since then. I've "contributed" in other ways but still haven't made open source code contributions a big part of my life.

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Dian Fay

I found and supplied patches for a couple of major bugs preventing set operations (UNION, EXCEPT, and INTERSECT) from working in the JCR-SQL query parser for ModeShape, a Java content repository.

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Dylan Paulus

github.com/react-cosmos/react-cosm...

Found some bugs, and added a 404 page to React Cosmos. It's great feeling to get any amount of code into an OSS project!

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Kyle R. Conway

I believe it was designing a community badge for the Fedora Linux project.

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Nick Taylor

My first PR ws to a project that was using a framework that I was trying to learn, Meteor. It was a fun project called Push Pickup. The premise was to organize pick up games of basketball and some other sports. You can see my horrible first PR here.

Want to see what your first PR was? Check out firstpr.me.

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Markus Willems

github.com/yannickcr/eslint-plugin...

Updated docs for eslint-plugin-react.

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John Best

This one Was tons of fun and I wish I could do more of it.

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Yury

I only have one pull request that was fixing an issue I had with database migration framework. It wasn't merged though because the issue turned out not so easy to reproduce and I didn't have the time to find out what's so special about my configuration