Five minutes is the fastest I\u2019ve had an open source contribution accepted, from PR to merge, and it was a first-time contribution at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 couldn\u2019t find a single other one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contributing to open source doesn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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