Project Preferences: Long-Term or Quick Wins?

In your coding projects, do you lean towards prolonged, in-depth engagements or quick, immediate wins? Share your experiences and the reasoning behind your preference.


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[Jeremy Friesen]

One of my favorite things for engaging in a new-to-me project is multi-fold:

1. Review recent git logs and see the recent changes
2. Look at chunky files (those that are larger than others)
3. Generate the inline documentation and do a cursory overview
4. Run the specs and see where code is not covered.

Find code and refactor it or write a test of uncovered code. This is the small orienting win. Then keep doing that. Maybe patch a bug. Acclimate to the ecosystem and how the small wins can be folded into the main branch; which makes way for larger/grander contributions.