Getting started with OSS!!

atharwa_24 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:41:22 +0000

Starting from July ,when I first came to know about Hacktoberfest,I was quite excited to participate in it.In the due course of time I came across the Open Source Hacks organised by Anitab.org . There I got a chance to get more familiar with the git concepts and came in contact with some amazing mentors (which i have learned but never applied in a Real case scenario working with any organization)

This helped me a lot to get familiar with the project's actual production code base.That (OSH) event was going to end on 30th of September and Hacktoberfest was going to start from 1st of October. As I was familiar with that projects code base I decided to get started by Contributing towards Mentorship-Android .

Later, explored issues marked with hacktoberfest resolved couple of those in the September.As I completed with my commits , I eagerly started waiting for 1st of October.

At 12:00 am,Oct 1st, I send my first PR to Anitab-org Mentorship-android that was basically solving a xml bug which occured on the login screen of the app background. The count on Hacktoberfest profile turned 1! I can't wait further I made the other 4 pull requests and filled the bar!!!!!

Looking forward to contribute as much as I can during the fest!

Even if you are new to git , Github , Open Source platform give it a try its a great platform to get started in OSS

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Integrated Build to test, build gradle, automate labels, and much more in single Workflow for Android

atharwa_24 — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:14:28 +0000

My Workflow - Custom Android CI with Gradle

I am a newbie ,to GitHub really fascinated with the Communities present on GitHub and how they works, who likes to contribute on OSS.
So this was my first try to GITHUB ACTIONS.I thought of the tasks which can be automated using the Actions, The options provided were really cool to automate the stuff on a repo.So firstly I added the test,and gradle build with changes integrated in continuation(CI-continuous integration),committed it

Hurray!!! Build Successful

I got quite excited with it. As I tried Integrating the Travis CI integration but somehow required a heck lot of time for setting up the integration(I was new to it).
Later, when my first small Pull request got Merged in google/docsy one of its maintainer commented "Nice,Thanks" ,It gave me a crazy dopamine boost.
In short, that comment made me move more towards the OSS contribution.So, I decided to add the automated the First PR message for First Commits.

When I was checking repos I saw the labels added on them. Those have made me understand the basic purpose of the PR at just a glance towards it.This was the reason I add the automated labels in the workflow.
So, this was the first workflow Created by me using Custom GitHub actions.