Up your game by Open Source

In these slides, I have explained how we can up the game by making contributions to Open Source

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1. Up your game by contributing to Open Source Bowrna Open Source Contributor, Apache Airflow
2. Who am I? • Self-taught programmer • Software Engineer with around 8 years of experience in building backend systems • Outreachy Intern for Apache Airflow - Dec 2021 Cohort • Active Open Source Contributor to Apache Airflow
3. Agenda • How I started making contribution to Open source project? • What did I learn by contributing to Open source project?(Best practices in Software Engineering)
7. Ways to start making first contribution • Start reading CONTRIBUTORS guide (Having a clear CONTRIBUTORS guideline is a sign of good project). • Join the chat channels. • Subscribe to the email group of the project. • Check for issues with beginner-friendly or good-first-issue labels. • Check if the project is active.
8. How did i make my first contribution?
10. What happens after raising PR? • Code reviews - It can be intimidating at the beginning • Pass the build in CI pipelines • You may introduce bugs or would have fixed issue in wrong way • Your code gets merged into main branch
11. Perseverance
13. Asking meaningful question in public
14. About GIT REBASE Image by Ryan Hodson
15. Revised CONTRIBUTING page in Airflow
16. Rebasing branch in a button click
17. What did i learn by contributing to Open Source project?
18. Learn by reading Open Source code
19. Watch others Pull Request
22. Clear Communication in written form is POWERFUL tool
24. Learn the process • Total number of commits made to big project in Open Source is huge • Tool like Github actions for CI pipelines, pre-commit helps to maintain code quality, runs the test cases, verify all the basic checks • Clear documentation • Good code coverage with test cases
25. Hardships faced
28. 9% Total number of women users in Github
30. Thanks! Contact: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bowrna_p Blog: https://bowrna.hashnode.dev/