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How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I use open source self hosted software everyday. I love the community and I would love to be able to contribute to some of these projects.

As far as code goes, I basically no nothing about how it works. I see the development section of the repos I use and again, I've go no idea how it works.

How can I teach myself how to offer small improvements to the projects I use?

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago

It depends on the project. Often there's a "Contributing" page on its website or a file named CONTRIBUTING.md or similar in the source tree. Start from reading it. Sometimes information there is aimed at experienced developers, but sometimes it is very friendly for beginners.

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