A beginner's guide to Open Source
summary
Demonstrates concrete first steps for making real contributions: code lives on GitHub or Bitbucket, projects use GPL/MIT/Apache licenses, and common tasks are bugfixes, tests, docs or small refactors rather than big new features. Advises opening an issue and asking maintainers before coding, expecting maintainers to volunteer their time, watching for a contributor licensing agreement, using mentorship like Bundler pairing, and cites concrete wins such as adding a fail fast switch to Cucumber and contributions to the New Relic Ruby agent.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48What is Open Source
- 7:19Contributing to Open Source
- 10:08Getting Started
- 15:11Dos
- 16:43Donts
- 18:43Etiquette
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