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Interested in Contributing to Open Source? Here's What You Need to Know

Juraj on February 23, 2024

Have you ever thought of contributing to open source? If you are here, you probably did 😄 For a beginner, it might seem confusing, and I can relat...
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Luka

Very nice explanation, I think more projects should make bloga that explain how to contribute

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Juraj

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Jura Milić

Cyclops team never misses with their blog posts. I just made my first open source contribution 🤯

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Juraj

Glad you found the article useful 😊
Congratz on your first contribution!

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Pieces 🌟

This is amazing! So useful.

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Juraj

Thank you!

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Italis Odilson Woodly

Very nice reading, thank you!

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Juraj

🙏

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Bap • Edited

Great summary! I would add as well that if you need to contribute to projects after you can check out quine.sh to help you find your next gem 💎
Really strong write-up.

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Juraj

I like quine.sh and the work you do! I've already included a link to it in the blog 😉

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Bap

🌟🫶

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Matija Sosic

Nice intro for beginners! The forking process can be quite daunting if you've never done it before.

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Juraj

Forking is probably the most confusing step in the process 😄

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Leonard Inkret

Also don't try to update readmes/licenses, or fix typos in order to "farm" accepted Pull Requests. Nobody is fooled by that, and repository maintainers are sick of getting swarmed by those very-popular PRs. Nice article

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Juraj

Oh yes, I agree with you!
In fact, that was the focus of my last article

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Tini Cassi

Always wondered how to contribute, now i know how. Tnks!

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Juraj

My pleasure 😊

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Abdelrahman Elsayed

Nice and to the point! I don't know why, but I expected that you would write such an article after the last one.

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Juraj

😄