>Make first contribution to an open source project on github

>>61719970
never
don't even bother with helping open source projects, get a job then you'll get paid to deal with fragile egos

>>61719970
FOSS is doing downhill fast. Trannys and faggots are destroying projects with meaningless shit like bitching about gendered pronouns in documentation and the use of words such as master/slave.

Honestly though OP, try to find decent projects to contribute to or start your own.

Check previous PRs before submiting a new one

>>61719970
Depends what you mean by "shit on"

If by "shit on" you mean constructive but harsh criticism, then try to suck it up and realize maybe you need to learn a bit more. The entry standard for FOSS projects is pretty damn high, and there is no "training" to get you started.

If the criticism is just harsh, but not constructive, then just try to contribute to another project. Usually these kinds of projects are just shitfests and what you did wrong is probably not your fault.

>>61720525
>>61720077
This. Ignore the other retards.

>>61719970
let me guess:
either your code was shit, or you didn't read the fucking coding guidelines ?

>>61720065
Dude, that happened a couple times. It's not exactly epidemic.

>>61719970
>does it get better?

Yeah the whole point of contributing to foss, other than helping building the software that you love is to help you grow as developer.

They may be overly harsh but ultimately their criticism should help you learn and grow.

also:
>>61720024
>>61720065

Get the fuck out pajeet scum.

>>61719970
Stop being a dumb frogposter

>>61720065
This.

>>61719970
Midsized projects are best. Large stuff is very corporate. Small stuff is all ego. You want to contribute to something that even if mostly written by one guy still has a process in place for accepting other people's code and a history of it.

>>61719970
How so? I wanna see at least an anonymized screenshot of the comment.

>>61719970

Find a better project. Gnu projects are really good.

>>61722389
There is none, OP is frogposting.

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>first pr to open source project
>get thanks and merged

>>61722857
>first pr to open source project
>get thanks and merged
>owner emails me asking for my name to add to the contributors file
>for a literal 1 line fix
And yes, this actually happened.

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>Project had a bunch of issues with "easy/medium/hard" labels opened around the same time
>Open PR solving one
>About 20 lines or so
>Get an email about a week later
>Apparently that was part of a IETF hackathon and they offered to send me a t-shirt from it
>Had no fucking idea about it
I was so taken aback, I never ended up emailing them back.

>First pr to open source project
>it's a one line edit to some xml

>>61719970
>be me
>contribute a neat little feature to a gh project
>file issue
>send pull req
>get a list of 12 style points to fix
>fix them
>send new pull req
>merged and thank you
It Gets Better™®©

>>61723160
>>be me
Who else would you be?

>>61723169
Your dad

>>61723193
Almost certainly not.