Contributing to open-source in realtime

Contributing to open-source in realtime talk presentation at open source community Africa event in Lagos, Nigeria.

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1. Contributing to open- source in Realtime Shodipo Ayomide | {@developerayo} | Open Source Community Africa
2. - Developer Advocate and Software Engineer - Community Developer - @developerayo on Twitter - @developerayo on GitHub - shodipoayomide.com Shodipo Ayomide
5. Do you have what it takes?
6. YES! YES!
7. Sharing Knowledge
8. Where do you start?
9. Events Learn by lurking
10. Events Documentation
11. Finding an issue Browse the API docs Check for newer features Watch pull requests
12. Build trust with the team
13. Need more help? Sometimes it’s nice to talk to a real person. Here’s where you’ll find them: • Regular contributor • Core team
14. Submitting a PR • Tone is so important • Working in a distributed team • Patience is a virtue • Your PR might never get accepted, and that’s okay!
15. Before reaching out... Show that you have made an effort Come with a bug/feature Balance request with the amount of trust you’ve built up
16. Events Create a free GitHub account
17. Events Install git
18. Events “upstream” a.k.a. “origin” Pull Request Push Merge $ _ a.k.a ~/react-notify you/react-notify developerayo2/react-notify The GitHub flow for contributors
19. Git Branching
20. Let’s get our hands dirty!
21. developerayo/react-notify $ _ FORK git clone git clone https://github.com/ username/repo git remote add origin https://github.com/ username/repo ~/mortgage you/react- notify Getting the code
22. my-branch my-branch $ _ $ _ $ _ do some work git checkout -b master git checkout -b branch-name ~/react-notify ~/react-notify ~/react-notify Making changes in a branch
23. my-branch you/react- notify my-branch $ _ $ _ git push my-branch git add . & git commit -am “commit message" git add/commit ~/react-notify Saving your branch files and pushing
24. developerayo/react- notify my-branch merge PULL REQUEST pull request master developerayo/react- notify you/react- notify Pushing the contribution
25. Thanks! Questions? Find me @developerayo