Thread by @deepukreddy

Roadmap to contribute to opensource !!
1. Learn Git and GitHub
2. Search for projects with beginner friendly labels in Github.
3. Fork a project and make the changes
4. Raise a PR and Wait the reviewer to review..

Each step is explained in the thread below.

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1. Learn git and github
Git is a version control system and github is a hosting provider for version control system using Git.

Git is an essential skill you need to contribute to opensource.

Resources to learn git - medium.com/javarevisited/…

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2. Search for projects with beginner friendly labels in Github

This link contains links of all the issues with beginner friendly tags.
gist.github.com/stefanmaric/d5…

You can filter issues of particular technologies you want to work on.

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2. contd..

You can also find projects with beginner friendly issues here.

goodfirstissues.com
up-for-grabs.net
goodfirstissue.dev

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3. Fork a project and make the changes

After choosing the project the next steps would be ,
Fork the repo
Clone it to your local
Make changes in your local
Push the code to GitHub

Follow this guide - github.com/firstcontribut…

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4. Raise a PR and wait for the reviewer to review.
After your changes are pushed. You need to raise a pull request to merge the code to main repo.
Reviewer will review your code and will merge it ,if it is valid.
github.com/firstcontribut…

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Once your code is merged to master of the main repo , you will get an email notification...

This is a standard workflow for contributing to github
Remember these 6 steps - Choose > Fork > Edit > Push > PR > Merge

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