Review Contributions
Reviewing contributions is one way to contribute without committing a single file to version control, but it likely will require you to use version control to retrieve and view the contributions up for review.
We’ll go through code reviews later in this chapter as a separate topic, but all types of contributions can benefit from another set of eyes on them. Reviewing a contribution helps locate defects early on in the process, when it’s still relatively easy to fix them. It also helps to confirm that the work that was committed is actually the work that needs to be done. Very often either the issue is vague in describing the requirements or the contributor misunderstands them somehow. Catching these problems during review ...
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