Contributing to open-source in realtime

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Contributing to open- source in Realtime Shodipo Ayomide | {@developerayo} | Open Source Community Africa

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- Developer Advocate and Software Engineer - Community Developer - @developerayo on Twitter - @developerayo on GitHub - shodipoayomide.com Shodipo Ayomide

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Do you have what it takes?

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YES! YES!

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Sharing Knowledge

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Where do you start?

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Events Learn by lurking

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Events Documentation

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Finding an issue Browse the API docs Check for newer features Watch pull requests

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Build trust with the team

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Need more help? Sometimes it’s nice to talk to a real person. Here’s where you’ll find them: ● Regular contributor ● Core team

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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!

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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

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Events Create a free GitHub account

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Events Install git

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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

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Git Branching

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Let’s get our hands dirty!

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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

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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

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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

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developerayo/react- notify my-branch merge PULL REQUEST pull request master developerayo/react- notify you/react- notify Pushing the contribution

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Thanks! Questions? Find me @developerayo