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OS / How I made my first PR to DEV as a code newbie

icncsx on May 28, 2020

In the past six months, my relationship with DEV was strictly limited to consumer and provider. I learned tons of new things and gave nothing back ...

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Ridhwana Khan • May 29 '20

Here is what I want you to takeaway from this post: you needn't be brave to make open source contributions because bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is about acknowledging that fear and deciding that the want to contribute is decidedly more significant than our competence, image, and self-importance. Remember, the worst thing that can happen is for your PR to get rejected because almost no one will criticize you for sharing the product of free labor

I truly love this takeaway! Congratulations on your first contribution to DEV and I'm so glad that I got to interact with you in this milestone 🎉Looking forward to many more interactions 😁

icncsx • May 30 '20

Thank you, @ridhwana and we will for sure keep in touch. I saw that you had assigned some issues to me. Yay!

rhymes • May 29 '20

So awesome! Thanks for the love and for the contribution. Looking forward to the next ones.

We recently merged a new redone container based installation. It now uses podman for Linux and the experience should be better, if not, please open an issue about it ;-)

You can find the new installation instructions here: docs.dev.to/installation/containers

icncsx • May 30 '20

The next ones are coming; don't you worry 😎. And thanks for the note about podman. Not that local installation was tough or anything but podman could definitely lower the barriers to contributing.