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Anybody wants to start/practice contributing to OSS projects??

K-Sato on April 23, 2019

Introduction I made this super simple ruby gem called spell_generator and looking for people who want to start/practice contributing to ...
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Robin Victorino

Hi!

Thank you for this brilliant initiative, that I'd have love to see a few months ago when I wanted to get to know PRs and OSS contribution workflows.

I have a few suggestions that are a bit off the main objective (add mode words via PRs), but if you want / need me to open an issue for that, I'd be happy to do so.

As the primary objective (I assume) is to keep the code as simple as possible to simplify contributions, you may want to sort words by alphabetical order. I assume it would allow start a conversation between maintainer and contributor if a new PRs is correct (adding a word) but may be improved by adding the said word at the right index.

It would also avoid word repetition more easily (e.g. «shallow» is listed twice; don't know if it's intentional for further contribution suggestions or not).

This is only a suggestion. You may think that it would probably confuse beginners more than current codebase state. It's up to you, really; just thought this suggestion may help in a way or another.

Thanks again for this great idea an approach :)

(of course externalizing words to a file or db may be an even «cleaner» approach; but I guess would not meet the «beginner friendly codebase» objective as its current state)

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K-Sato • Edited

you may want to sort words by alphabetical order.

That is a brilliant idea!!

I'd really really appreciate if you open an issue for that😁.

It would also avoid word repetition more easily (e.g. «shallow» is listed twice; don't know if it's intentional for further contribution suggestions or not).

That's just my mistake. Thanks for pointing it out 😆!!

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Mackenzie

Hey Sato I'm building a tool to make it easier for OSS projects to outsource work to their community. It's supposed to be for people like you.

I’d love to talk to you about your needs doing OSS work. If you're interested join the telegram group t.me/PioneerCommunity

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K-Sato

Thanks for the invitation! I'd love to join the group!!

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Edwin Mak

Very nice!

I am happy you took the initiative to open up a conversation/practice on OSS contribution. It certainly is an important skill to have in the day-to-day of a software developer.

I'll take a look :)

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K-Sato • Edited

Thanks for opening a great issue!!

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Peter Witham

A brilliant idea. I have to give this a go even though I know squat Ruby code :)

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K-Sato

btw, I just listend to one of your podcasts!!!
Cool stuff!! Keep it up🤠!!!

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Peter Witham

Thank you!! So glad you liked it, I certainly intend to keep making and improving them :)

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K-Sato

Thank you!!
I'm open to any suggestions 🙆🏻‍♂️!!

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K-Sato

Thank you so much for your cooperation 🙇🏼‍♀️!!
I really really appreciate it!!!