How To Get Started With Open Source

Getting started in open source is intimidating. It seems daunting jumping into an unfamiliar world so in this video I will guide you through the process of finding your first issue and creating your first pull request.

🧠 Concepts Covered:

- How to find a good first issue
- How to create a pull request
- How to fork a repository

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:08 - Finding Good Repos/Issues
02:27 - How To Find Contribution Rules
04:08 - Finding An Issue
05:25 - Making Your Changes
08:36 - Making A Pull Request
11:19 - Merging A Pull Request
12:49 - Outro

#OpenSource #WDS #GitHub

[divyanshagarwal]

I think an extension to this video that you can make is how to keep your local fork updated with the main repo and stuff like rebasing etc, since an actually meaningful PR isn't going to get merged right away and until it does get accepted the main repo is bound to change and thus dealing with branches and keeping your local fork updated can get tricky at times.

[divyanshagarwal]

I'm glad you waited until October end to publish this video or else a lot of people would misuse this video to gain some easy PR merges lol

[nsharma]

I hadn't contributed to OS till now, since it seemed rather intimidating, and all other videos explaining this were too long to sustain my interest. Thanks to you, I understood this stuff in just 13 minutes! And you make it seem soo easy. I know I sound like a broken record, but really, you're the best teacher one could ask for, Kyle! 😄

[aceborja]

I just make my first pull request just now. I really appreciate your video, easy to follow and greatly simplified!

[zawadahmed]

I can't explain just how much I learned from a single 13 minutes video ❤️

[hectortorres]

Thank you, this was, in my opinion, a legit step-by-step instruction on how to contribute! I really appreciate it!

[phantomproduction]

Straight to the point, Just what I needed. Thanks, man.

[breakinggreatness]

This is very helpful. I have spent many hours solving GIT issues, so this is a very good explanation - nice job 👍

[henry_]

Thank you so much! This is exactly the information that I need!

[SeniorJuniorDeveloper]

Awesome video, very clear and helpful as always thanks!

[JimKernix]

Thanks so much! I just started looking into contributing to open source and I didn't really know how to do it. For beginners to web design and development, there is so much to learn that it can be overwhelming.

[nicklandreth]

I searched you just to find your courses. Then there was this video with exactly what I need to learn waiting.

[saideepesh]

I think the most imp thing in contributing to open-source(beginners) is understanding the issues and writing code that solves the issue

[CodeWithTomi]

I've been waiting for something like this.
Thanks a lot

[prashoonbhattacharjee]

Thanks Kyle for this Informative video!!🙂

[jixiangli]

This is really helpful to me. Thanks so much Kyle

[renu]

The most clear explanation of Open Sourcing on whole of YouTube

[mehtabahmed]

Thank you so much, always a great fan of you!

[Amar]

Thanks.
I was searching for just time concept.

[simaqshanavas]

Thank you Kyle everything is so simple