Forge Your Future with Open Source

After Your First Contribution

Once you submit your contribution, you must practice this little thing we like to call Patience. There are any number of reasons that it might take a while for the project members to get around to reviewing your contribution. Sometimes you’ll find a project that has a policy to try to review any contribution within a certain amount of time, but few projects have the available people power to make a promise like that. Your contribution will have to wait in line with all the rest of them, until someone is available to have a look at it. If someone hasn’t reviewed your contribution in a couple of weeks, feel free to drop a gentle question into the project community’s preferred communication route asking when you can ...