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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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Contribution Process Is Unclear

You’ve found a project, you’ve confirmed that it’s OK with your employer for you contribute to the project, and now you’re ready to dive in and get started! This is usually an exciting moment; you’re all energized, motivated, and eager to start making a difference in the project. Unfortunately and all too often, all that energy fizzles away the instant you discover that the project doesn’t have good documentation for new contributors.

The most immediate sign that a project’s new contributor documentation is lacking is that it doesn’t have a CONTRIBUTING file at all, or it has a file, but it’s entirely empty (a common trend lately for projects hosted on GitHub in particular). That’s a red flag that it may be difficult ...

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