Contributing to Calypso

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Calypso is a 100% JavaScript WordPress.com admin built with React/Redux, available as web and desktop apps; it handles millions of users (around 2.8M page views and ~5.3M new posts monthly) so scale and A/B testing matter — one preview test actually reduced signups. Contribution workflow uses GitHub issues and pull requests, with labels like good first change to find easy tasks and OSS citizen for external contributors; branches can be tested via a public staging URL by passing the branch name.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:51What is Calypso
3. 3:18Why Calypso
4. 8:16How to contribute
5. 12:30Useful labels
6. 15:15Questions

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