This October was overall eventful. It was my first time participating in Hacktoberfest and contributing to impressive open-source projects all month.
It was a fantastic experience because it helped me:
- Form new connections.
- Collaborate with developers around the globe.
- Get comfortable with contributing to projects that I do not maintain.
- Improve my coding skills.
Linear Progression (in order)
Improve Telescope documentation (1/4)
Add missing information about the proper way to initialize PostgresSQL for development purposes.
Disable spell-check in Linked editor (2/4)
Linked currently does not have support spell-check. Thus, there is no point in underlining typos.
Fix overlapping tooltip bug in Telescope (3/4)
Hovering over the avatar in the top navigation shows the 'Sign out' tooltip overlapping with the username. I adjusted the tooltip position to display it outside the avatar.
Implement completion spec for ssh-keygen in Fig Autocomplete (4/4)
Add autocompletion for the ssh-keygen command using man pages as my reference.
Learning outcomes
- Getting comfortable setting up different projects on my local machine based on contribution documentation. I also learned that it is only sometimes a straightforward process. You may run into issues during the configuration process for medium to large-scale projects and may have to seek assistance from community members.
- Getting comfortable with Git rebasing is a must for medium to large-size projects.
- Often, a bug may seem easy to fix until you start working on it. I learned that timing and research is the key.
- There is no shame in having too many reviews and comments on a PR. It is better to get used to it now than later. There's no escape. Eventually, the pull requests will get longer.
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