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The First Pull Request

How to find a project you want to contribute to
What a contribution is
How to encourage contributors (especially first timers)
How to make the OSS community safer, better, fun-er :-)

How to create a popular open source project
How to make maintainers merge your Pull Request
Why you should contribute to open source

Denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

Powers our world, is a ton of fun to contribute to, and needs you to succeed

~/Desktop/linux (master)
🚀 $ cloc .
   52880 text files.
   52386 unique files.                                          
    9165 files ignored.

https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.66  T=272.34 s (160.6 files/s, 72107.3 lines/s)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                             files          blank        comment           code
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C                                    22451        2166047        2003254       11062201
C/C++ Header                         17192         416883         715217        2696851
Assembly                              1413          47220         110118         241449
XML                                    177           3441            243          49968
make                                  2138           8041           7756          33837
Perl                                    47           4559           3602          23938
Bourne Shell                           173           1785           3239           9764
Python                                  41           1300           1443           7540
yacc                                     8            649            355           4357
HTML                                     3            398              2           2933
lex                                      8            292            289           1823
C++                                      1            231             58           1581
Bourne Again Shell                      47            294            245           1375
awk                                     10            132            129           1130
NAnt script                              2            121              0            449
Pascal                                   3             49              0            231
Lisp                                     1             63              0            218
Objective C++                            1             55              0            189
m4                                       1             15              1             95
XSLT                                     6             13             27             71
vim script                               1              3             12             27
Windows Module Definition                1              0              0              8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                                 43725        2651591        2845990       14140035
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Blank + Comment + Code = 19,637,616

Code Contributors to Linux

Total Contributors: >3,500

How could I possibly contribute?

You can contribute a great deal!

We all have different circumstances...

A person or thing that contributes something, in particular.

A group of people ... having a particular characteristic in common

What do we have in common?

You contribute best to something you use regularly

How to learn the codebase?

Causes of burnout include

Change of job
Change of project
Loss of interest
Loss of time

Losing context
Feeling overwhelmed
Frustration
Impatience
Unkindness

help newcomers become contributors...

increase diversity of thought, opinion, and background in OSS

save yourself from burnout

Respect
Encouragement
Recognition
Responsibility
Trust

Your Contributor Pipeline

Contributors => Committers

$ git clone https://github.com/kentcdodds/webpack-validator
$ npm install
$ npm run validate
$ echo 'code away! 👍'

You're making an investment

that will definitely pay back

Volunteer Retention: Wikipedia

Gallus, Jana (2015). Fostering Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia. CREMA Working Paper No. 2015-05. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2579118 @janagallus

Code contributors

Naturally rewarded

But not non-code contributors

All Contributors

Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code

Committers => Maintainers

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