Contribute to Kotlin w/Adam McNeilly

One of the greatest feelings as a developer, or as a person in general, is being able to give back to a community that's helped you. As Android developers, we have a great opportunity to do just that with the Kotlin language. In this talk, we'll go over how to find easy ways to help, and walk you through the process to make your first contribution.

1. Contributing To Kotlin Adam McNeilly & Brian Plummer
2. Crazy huge!
3. Where do I start?
8. How do I find code that needs samples?
10. Let’s make one!
11. Check Contribution Guidelines
12. Clone Repository
13. Sample Creation
14. Sample Creation
15. Sample Creation
16. Sample Creation
17. Sample Creation
18. Find Method Source
19. Link To Sample
20. Validate Locally
21. Create PR
22. Address Feedback
23. Address Feedback
24. • Two weeks from creation to merge • Typically two weeks for document refresh on site • Whole process could be less than a month! Now What?
25. Bragging Rights
26. What problems might we face?
27. Generated Methods
28. Find Method Template
29. Link To Sample
30. Run Code Gen
31. Generated Code Updated
32. Thanks! @plummermakes @AdamMc331 Some Links • Contributing Guidelines: https://bit.ly/2V5wk8J • YouTrack Issue: https://bit.ly/39Z8qQP • Samples Explanation: https://bit.ly/38H2GKZ • Adam’s PR: https://bit.ly/2vOLSDc • Up for Grabs Issues: https://bit.ly/2udc7CZ