Tip for newbies: often there’s labels called “good first issue” or “my first PR” on a lot of projects that are small tasks that can introduce you to the project and make a meaningful change!
That was nice introduction for first time contribution. I actually did my first contribution today after learning from this video. It was small HTML/CSS contribution to a project but felt nice for first steps. Thanks Ma'am
Wow! I've always wondered how there is no help for someone new to open source. Short and simple steps for one's first commit. Thank you, it was much needed!
Reading the documentation and making updates there is a good start that way you understand about the system and that opens the door for more changes in the product
I Like Cammi Williams's explanation about how to contribute to the first first open source project, It is clearly explained and easy for the beginner to understand, Great!
Thank you for detailed description of the process! This helped me to make my first Github contribution. Only hiccup I had - I needed to generate token to be able to commit my changes. Thank you again. :)
I've been an open source software enthusiast for a long time now, what I've come to realize over time is that the value of open source is not just in software but in all things. When we can learn to apply the principle of open source along with the principle of decentralization to our systems of education, scientific development, governments, security, economics structure and incentives as well as corporate entities humanity will be able to level up we won't need to rely on unsustainable means of energy production, And we will have a framework to be a community of empowered individuals. We can bypass hierarchical systems that lean towards tyranny overtime. And free ourselves from relying on systems that don't fit our best interest.
I think its a good idea to hang on the developer mailing list and get an idea who the contributors are and what they're working on. See who could be a sort of teacher.
I dont get the branches and stuff. if someone changes the code while youre working on it and when you pull your code. it wont be compatible with the new code. i dont understand how that works.
Sorry for the silly question, but I'd like to know what she means when she mentions the term "SOURCE CODE" in quotes like that? What is she saying about the source code of an open source with that?
Great video, thanks a lot. But a bit misleading about opensource. Opensource projects aren NOT FREE. You should look for a license to find out what are you allowed to do with the code. If the license tells that the project is free to use/modify/republish then yes, its essentially free. But there are tons of different types of licenses, moreover project owner may SELL a license. For example, look at Qt, it is opensource and has 2 types of licenses; The first one is free and says that you are free to use the source code in your OPEN SOURCE, PROJECTS, while the second one is paid and says that you can use Qt in any (private/commercial/etc.) project. By the way, if a repository is missing a license, then you're not allowed to do anything with it, you can only view😂
I'm pretty new, but doesn't "Open Source" just mean the code is open to view, Doesn't make it open to use or modify? Shouldn't you check the license before doing whatever you want with the code?
@@tonypatriota6408 you can search for “Awesome” on github, you will find some repos with a list of begginer friendly or good first time only, the great part is that some lists are sorted by programming lenguaje, so you can find a project with a lenguaje you are confortable with, i think that is a good place to start Hope this is helpful🤘🏻
If you're not confident enough, you can do docs translation. Some people might think when they do translation they are not contributing as much as someone who writes code. But this couldn't be further from the truth! Imagine all the projects without docs!
Couldn't agree more. Documentation, whether translating or improving is very important for any OS project, and often the primary developers don't have time/inclination/skills to keep up documentation, so people who help with that, even if they have no coding ability, are very valuable to the project.
I'm completely new to coding and open source, and documentation being so important for developers, shouldn't more experienced coders contribute to the docs ? (sorry if this was a stupid question 😂)
@@mananwashere It's not a stupid question, yes experience dev write the doc, but someone with basic knowledge of the framework in question can do the TRANSLATION
This is a fantastic introduction to open-source contributions. I always wanted to get into this. But never knew where to exactly start. I have more confidence now to undertake these projects. Thanks Cami!
This is exactly what I was looking for. There are all these tutorials about Git and Github technologies, but none of them actually tell you how to work with them. Thank you very much for helping out with the clearly neglected front end part.
What requirements need for open source If any one know how to start prepration for open source Plz Help me or give me guidance (roadmap) My ig id is attacker frnd 😄😄
This is one amazing video. Very informative and very explanatory yet very detailed in demonstration and straight to the point. This was tremendously helpful to me, someone who is trying to slowly myself as a software developer yet going through the clueless beginning. THANK YOU CAMI
Please answer this question or a video on this topic will be great. I have learnt Java, C, C++ where I have learnt for loop, while etc, basically all basics with algos. Additionally I have learnt HTML, CSS at beginner level. I spent whole day searching repositories, saw issues but when to contribute something meaningful (not a readme file typo fix)- "I don't know where to start, how to locate - just blank" I have watched tons of videos haven't found my answer. Let me know right direction, or if I am lacking skills.
I actually made a contribution towards Facebook/react repo but after that when I made another contributions my local fork contains commits that are from previous contribution. I actually want to know how to keep my fork in sync with main react repo. I always mess up , I followed a lot of tutorials still no luck.
It helped a lot to understand. I haven't contributed to any open source project yet. Just a question, is forking necessary? Can I create a branch from master and then commit+push and then raise the pull request to master?
Facebook: Let's preach open source. It will make us look good!!! Me: Ok, start by releasing the all the Facebook sourcecode Facebook: No... thats proprietary Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you ! other videos didn't do a complete example so I didn't wanna mess my first contribution! but this was from start to finish, fantastic. Great video!
I have a question After forking the repo and downloading the codebase how do you go about testing the code and running different parts of the code? Do you just create a py file in the repo and import the downloaded codebase? or do you do something else? Thanks in advance
Gosh I have watched so many videos on how to contribute to a project all seems to be confusing each other and in the process confusing me , but here I am watching this single video and it's as clear as day 😊
This is the video that a newbie requires.Such a helpful video.Thanks for making such videos.But can you suggests some projects where a newbie can contibute to,I mean the organizations.
Not to be too pedantic but to mitigate mistakes it's a good idea to understand that not all Open Source software is Free, and even those that are may be free as in _free speech_ not _free beer_ Otherwise ya published an excellent overview of utilizing GItHub UI for contributing, and encouraging the use of branches is superb! Branching tip; to make and checkout a new _``_ branch in one command use the `-b` option, eg... git checkout -b
I wanna correct a little mistake : open source is not necessarily free and even it's free, there are many free licenses each with its own limits and conditions. for example GPL licenses are more restricted than MIT which almost has not any limits
Really useful actually, in fact, I did not only learn about the git diff command ( I didn't know that was a thing ) but also about a whole bunch of good practices.
Thanks for making this video, I've been searching for a video that could help me get started with open source project and this tutorial is just awesome.
This is the best and most valuable thing I have seen for myself on RU-vid in recent years. Thank you charming girl for such valuable information. You are the best
Is open sourcing restricted to only the field of software development?, or is there any chance where we can contribute in other fields like Data Science, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, etc.....unable to find clarity on this...if any of you know please reply!
How to Do open source Oh it's easy! Just go to the most abstract repo , pytorch which just needs artificial intelligence Or 4 year Undergrad math 1. Updates Tech docs (OK for demo passes demo at least) Clones
11:09 But you created your own repo, so now you have a copy of the project on your github account and your local drive, how does other people contribution affect your copy? Why do you still need to write off of master?
