I just wanted to say that if you are thinking about contributing to OSS. DEV is a great place to get started. Their installation documentation is great and I had little to no issues spinning up a local environment.
Links that will get you started
After installation the docs that helped me get my first PR up
The installation for MacOS was pretty straight forward and these are all of the links I used to get my first PR up. There is much more documentation to read through, but I will leave those up to you to read :).
Steps to first PR
- Reviewed the Github repo
- Read through the contributing documents
- Installed prereqs for MacOS
- Went through the 'Getting Started' section
- Looked for a
difficulty: easyissue - Claimed it in the comments
- Spun up the local environment and got to hacking.
- Cleaned up my commits and created a PR
- Waited for reviews
- Got approval and my PR was merged :D
- Got sweet badge for my profile
So don't delay get out there and contribute some code!
Top comments (13)
And let's all remember that contributions to dev.to are contributions to forem!
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Ben Halpern ใป May 28 ใป 6 min read
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I didn't realize it was OSS! Nice and thanks for sharing this!
Yeah! Definitely check it out and get your contributing badge :D
And turn myself into a honey (badge)r? Nah. I kid. Poked around issues. Some day or when/if I find a bug that annoys the crap outta me. Currently swamped with personal projects and work, but still waste time perusing Dev.to ๐
Haha, yah same. Sometimes it's nice to get away from the same old same old.
It's great to see DEV doing so many nice things to encourage and support contributions. Really like the developer guide for how to setup a local env and the use of labels on issues.
I wrote earlier this week how many popular OOS lack this kind of care when it comes to new contributors. Happy to see that DEV is actively doing something to NOT be one of them.
The โgood first issueโ myth
Dzhavat Ushev ใป Jul 8 ใป 4 min read
Great article! Yeah, I think it's harder to contribute to more established OSS for a couple of reasons: the number of contributors and the product is more stable. I tend to stick to OSS repos that are similar to DEV in size.
I'm going to have a look through some issues tonight, got to get that badge๐
Do it! :D
Hey, thanks for the heads up!
No problem!
I was thinking about contributing OSS. And you just show me a wonderful direction. Awesome man! Solid article.๐๐ผ #kudos
That's what's up! Definitely check it out. There are some good first-time contributor issues in there. ๐ ๐