Two Weeks of Real Open Source Contributions
Five pull requests, a stale-branch bug that looked like a CI failure, a maintainer who caught a comment worth trimming — and what actually happened after the code was right.
Topic
Career
A collection of 4 issues
A Beginner's Glossary to Pull Requests
Fork, clone, branch, diff, CI, merge — the vocabulary and the actual sequence of events, in the order you'll hit them if you've never sent a PR to a project you don't own.
How to Tell If a Project Will Merge Your PR
Four numbers predict whether a maintainer will read your diff, and the star count is not one of them. Includes the forty-line screener and the blind spot it has.
I Went Looking for Open Source Contributions. Four of the Seven Were Traps.
Filtering GitHub by "good first issue" mostly returns contribution farms and moods dressed up as tasks. Seven candidates survived a first look, three became pull requests, and the four I threw away are the more useful half of the story.