How I Started Contributing to Open Source and Why You Should Too
summary
After two years contributing to Cucumber the talk gives concrete entry points: adding unit tests, refactoring Java to idiomatic Kotlin, reviewing PRs and merged something that wasn't ready then reverted and repaired with core maintainers' help. Describes updating transitive dependencies — updated transitive dependency (Jackson) to fix security — cloning, running builds, and PRs merged the next day. Mentions Slack/Gitter support channels, Open Collective funding, and invites to CukeFest and conference speaking.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17Why You Should Contribute
- 2:38Why You Dont Contribute
- 4:42Cucumber
- 6:55What you can contribute
- 10:04What you can not contribute
- 12:38Documentation
- 16:12Reporting Issues
- 22:55Getting Started
- 30:31Regression Testing
- 33:39Mailing Lists
- 39:03Github Hacktoberfest
- 43:51Running work projects
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