OSDD: Open Source Driven Development
summary
Claims that contributing to open source drives career growth and skill improvement with no immediate pay, supported by concrete steps: activated repo notifications and joined project meetings, searched for “good first issue” labels and opened issues to ask for onboarding help, implemented a JUnit 5 display name generator extension for Jakarta and opened a PR, updated a Spring Boot parent from 2.7.3 to 3.1.2 and submitted a pull request. Examples include contributions to Jakarta projects, Mercedes‑Benz repos and GitHub Actions running on the PRs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to OSDD
- 1:33What is Open Source Driven Development
- 4:04Challenges in Open Source
- 5:10Personal journey with Open Source
- 8:31Benefits of contributing to Open Source
- 9:35How to contribute to Open Source
- 15:55Finding and selecting issues to work on
- 19:56Contributing to Jakarta Data project
- 22:17Creating a pull request step-by-step
- 29:34Q&A and closing remarks
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