Chapter 5Make a Contribution
At this point, it can be tempting to just jump in and start working on your contribution. For some people and some contributions, this might even be successful, but for the rest of us, it’s not usually that easy. Don’t worry, though: you can do this, and by the end of this chapter, you’ll know what to do to make your contribution successful.
Making your first contribution to a project can be complicated. If the project isn’t well documented, if its community isn’t very communicative, if your contribution is complex, if you don’t have a lot of time or other resources available… Plenty of things could cause your first contribution to go a little less smoothly than you’d wish.
It’s OK at this point to pause and think ...
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