How to make your first Open Source contribution

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Fork
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Pull Request

using this approach means we have our own copy of the repo and are safe to make changes without any chance of breaking anything in the actual repo until it can be reviewed and tested.

I found it was worth performing a few PRs on this repo in order to get the sequence down pat.

The main thing I had to learn was that open source does not mean you have access to directly update a project, rather it means we can view the code, and also submit requests to update the code, this is known as the Pull Request. At this point we are at the mercy of the project owner in that they may approve the change you made and merge it, or they can reject it. There may be valid reasons for this if the change degrades performance or mabe causes a regression elsewhere and is spotted by failing tests. Either way we are not guaranteed to have our change accepted.