Your first contribution (and beyond)
summary
First contribution often means a documentation PR or a small bug fix; the Rails Guides and API docs plus the good-first-patch label are where people actually find work, and tools like Git, ctags, TracePoint and CodeTriage surface issues. Mentored paths (Google Summer of Code, pair work) accelerate merges; concrete example: adding systems tests to the scaffold generator became a merged pull request in about two months. Watch the repo, reproduce bugs, write minimal repro scripts, and expect slower review cycles.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 8:14Documentation
- 13:02Finding an issue
- 16:35rapport
- 20:09Need more help?
- 21:01Submitting a PR
- 27:02Pros
- 29:00Before reaching out...
- 31:07Keep in mind
- 33:42Rails Maintainers
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