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Making Your First Pull Request

Making Your First Pull Request

Your First PR is an initiative with a goal to get people involved in making pull requests to other open source projects. In this talk you will be introduced to Your First PR as a project, discover where you can find starter issues to work on, and learn how you can help others to make their own awesome pull requests.

Charlotte Spencer

February 06, 2016
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  1. Maintaining is hard @charlotteis % No explanation of the issue

    Project hasn’t been updated in some time Issue already fixed Different definitions of ‘easy’
  2. @yourfirstpr @charlotteis ' Sharing approachable issues on Twitter Helping maintainers

    to write good issues ~4000 followers in 4 months 4 events 100+ first pull requests
  3. Their First PR @charlotteis Learn how to work with GitHub

    Learn how to work with the project Learn something new Contribute more Gain confidence
  4. Help! @charlotteis ✨ Don’t fix it yourself, write an issue

    Use a specific tag, link to it in your README Send the issues to me!