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This is a very basic and foundational step. You will have to learn at least 30-40% of any technology. Technology can refer to any. Most popular are :
Finding the organisation which matches your skillset is very important. You can refer google for this or
Readme of a project is very essential for users/ first time contributors of the project. Readme files give brief overview of the project to the developers intersected to contribute to it. Every new contributor should read the readme files to understand the workflow. Readme files contains the following.
If the projects are very big and contains many components then the developer should read the documentation associated with the component he wants to contribute to .
Code of conduct is basically a file which contains the behavorial instructions for everyone associated with the project. Every organisation today has a code of conduct. Every person in the community is bound to follow the code of conduct.
After you have successfully found out the organisation and project you want to contribute to and have read the readme's and code of conduct. So, now its time to do some work. In any organinsation/ project there are lots of issues open in the issues section. If you are first timer then you can filter the issues by good-first-time-issues which are specially created for anyone who is contributing first time.
This may sound weird but that's true. You have to go on the issue you want to solve. In the comments tell them like "Hey, I want to work on this issue, could you please tell me how can I solve this. " You can also ask this question on their newsletter platform on the general channel. You can get help of many people contributing to that organisation.
The readme file about which we talked about contains all the steps you need to follow to setup that project locally on your computer.
git clone https://github.com/<your-user-name>/<project-name>.git
git status
git remote -v
git remote add upstream <github-link-of-main-project-on-organisation>
git branch <any-branch-name>
git checkout branch <branch-name-given-in-step-5>
Do the fixes: Do all the fixes you wanted to do in the project.
After fixing : Use following command to push to code to your copy of project (your fork).
git push origin <branch-name>
Making pull request to organisation/project
<your-username> -> <branch-name> will be compared to organisation -> main#<issue-number> in the descriptionNow you can do anything of the branch created on your local machine. Either merge it or delete it.
git pull upstream master
You can refer the repo here
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