Five minutes is the fastest Iโve had an open source contribution accepted, from PR to merge, and it was a first-time contribution at that.
Friday, 1 November 2024, is when this happened, and I had come across the repo only an hour or so earlier while conducting some research into local network caching.
An excellently written readme; however, one grammatical mistake distracted my focus from the body of work surrounding it. I then started looking for other grammatical mistakes, but couldnโt find a single other one.
What should I do? Could I be bothered to fork the whole repo, create a local branch, and make the simple change before pushing it upstream? I then saw the edit icon when viewing the file in GitHub, which I clicked.
In two minutes, one word and one space were deleted, and a PR opened, all from the browser window. Two minutes later, a notification the PR was merged and closed came through, along with a note of thanks. The sentence that bothered me so much, was no longer.
Contributing to open source doesnโt need to be more complex than this, and many projects need documentation contributions. I share this example as encouragement for anyone who has ever been tempted by open source; technical skills are not required.
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