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Discussion on: What are some blockers for you on contributing to open source projects?

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Nicole Saunders 💻🌹

I’m pretty new to coding so what blocks me is not really knowing what I’m doing. I wouldn’t want to mess up someone’s code and then they’re upset. So for me it’s learning how to contribute to an open source project in the first place.

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Roshan Jossey

You wouldn't be messing up anything. You can't directly make changes to others' projects. You can suggest changes called pull requests. It's the maintainers discretion to accept that change or not.

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Nicole Saunders 💻🌹

Oh good I’ll have to start. I hear it’s a great way to learn.