Thank you Peter for sharing your experience. I agree with you the earlier the better. The few contributions that I have had helped me learn a few things such as
how to be more effective at code reviews
some best practices around code coupling
unit testing
Learned a few things when implementing the RFC 8414 and Clear-Site-Data specification
Some things about the Spring Security and Spring Boot
It's definitely a great benefit to be in a company and accompany of those who appreciate and support you to contribute to open source.
All in all, there are a good amount of learning opportunities.
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In the past of five years, I don't know about open source contributions.
In 2016, I looked for the open source projects on GitHub and start my open source contributions from then on.
You're right. Sometimes I learn new things and collaborate with developers on GitHub. It helps me a lot when I work some codes in my company.
I also have the plan to separate my company projects/packages to open source projects.
And I also thanks for my project manager to support this work.
Thank you Peter for sharing your experience. I agree with you the earlier the better. The few contributions that I have had helped me learn a few things such as
It's definitely a great benefit to be in a company and accompany of those who appreciate and support you to contribute to open source.
All in all, there are a good amount of learning opportunities.