Contributing to open source
How to make your first open source contributions: why they help your career, finding a project and a good first issue, reading contribution guidelines, the fork, branch and pull request workflow, writing a pull request maintainers want to merge, handling review, and contributions beyond code.
CodexBash, , 5 min read
Open source software runs the world: Linux, Python, Kubernetes, React, Spring and thousands of libraries you use every day are built in public by volunteers and companies together. Contributing to them is one of the best ways to grow as a developer: you read real production code, get reviewed by experienced engineers, and build a public record of your work that any recruiter can see. The first contribution is the hardest, mostly because the process feels unfamiliar. This guide walks through it.
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