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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Craft Your Contribution

Once you have some idea whether your contribution is needed for the project, you’re ready to create it.

The specifics of how you create it naturally will vary depending on the type of contribution: documentation, user experience, design, code, or other types. Each contribution type obviously will have its own creation process.

Whatever that process is, before you start, do double-check whether the project has already defined some guidelines for it. As covered in Chapter 3, Prepare to Contribute, many projects provide styleguides and contributor instructions. For instance, if your contribution is code, the project may require it to include both unit and integration tests or perhaps that it pass certain linter rules. ...

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