In this post we’ll look the steps that you can take as a new contributor to open source, in order to find and work on your first contribution to an issue on GitHub. As with the first post (Forking and Cloning from GitHub), we’ll use the Humanitarian Toolbox allReady project as our example. Choosing An Issue The first […]
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Forking and Cloning from GitHub Contributing to open source projects (Part 1)
In this post I’m going to share the initial steps that you will need to take in order to be begin contributing to an open source project. I’ve covered this more generally in the past and wanted to provide a more focused post that covered these steps for a new open source contributor. For this […]
GitHub Contributor Tips and Tricks (Gitiquette) My thoughts of being a better GitHub citizen
I made by first GitHub pull request back in November 2015. After a code review I needed to make some changes to the code and the learning curve of Git/GitHub bit me. I had to close my PR and open a fresh one in order to get my code accepted since I couldn’t figure out […]