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Discussion on: Why you should think twice about contributing to Open Source

 
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Rafiullah Hamedy

Thank you for sharing the other forms of contributions. I totally agree with you, asking and answering questions also counts as contribution.

When contributing to ElasticSearch, somebody made a pull request that I had some knowledge of based on an issue I worked on. I did a review of the pull request (you can check it out above) and provided the contributor some feedback that I knew the maintainer would give him anyway (the maintainer was thankful of the feedback - see github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/p...).

Providing feedback to a pull request in the form of code review (majority of repositories allow it) is another form of contribution. This helps both the contributor and maintainer.