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Meet the Maintainers: @Roshanjossey, First Contributions #153591
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Hi @Roshanjossey! You've done so much work helping beginners contribute to open source. What do you think are the biggest misconceptions new developers have about open source contribution? |
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HI @abbycabs, thank you :). Hope I can do a lot more. One feedback I've often got is around people being concerned that their changes has to be perfect. I think it might be because they don't understand review process. I've also had people requesting me for write access on repositories. It could've been how they had collaborated before. That open source is just about code. I think idea has ls less popular now than when I started the project though. (There's been significant efforts by the larger open source community for this). Another one is around maintenance of open source projects. I've seen people frustrated when their issues or pull requests weren't addressed in a day or documentation wasn't perfect. |
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Hello @Roshanjossey, really helpful project! If you made a project called Second Contributions what types of things do you think you would want to teach new contributors about? |
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Hi @Jeffrey-Luszcz, thank you :) I'm working on this. It's in beta phase now. https://github.com/Roshanjossey/code-contributions This time, I'm focusing on users having some code on their machine, making changes there, verifying the changes and submitting a pull request with the changes. It's done with a web app. I'm expecting contributors to understand some HTML, have a text editor, a web browser and a terminal emulator on their computer. I'm also trying to do this in a way contributors don't have to install anything. This adds some constrains for me. Let's see how it evolves. |
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I'm always suprised by the things which i take as normal get so popular. That amount of stars are crazy. Did you do some marketing or social sharing of your project? Or it's just natural evolution? |
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We've had around 80,000 people going through the tutorial so far. I think most of them star it too. In the beginning, I've shared it it most communities I used to participate in. I also got to write about it in site like opensource.com, freecodecamp etc. First contributions also used to get picked up by influencers. I've seen traffic from twitter and the project going to GitHub trending as a result. We also used to participate in Hacktoberfest. Our pull request count peaks were around October. |
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Hi @Roshanjossey! What a fantastic project that you have! I wish I had known about it earlier 😅 What would be your advice to encorage people to go to projects beyond their mother language and overcome insecurities like not being skilled enough to contribute or making a contribution that is not good enough? |
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Boa tarde @Salgado2004 :) I think your language skills are pretty good. You articulated your experience and your question effectively. I understand this anxiety. I also went through it. Even if you really understand something, you might be worried if you're using the right words or the right tone. My evolution on this has been about accepting that I do make mistakes. And it's okay to make mistakes. I started seeing more of the human side of open source. I'm very impressed by the process of large number of people coming together, collaborating and building something that helps them and other people. |
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Hi @Roshanjossey :D When did you realize, when was the turning point, that you really thought your work could help many people? |
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When we got our first translation. Somebody putting in the effort to translate the tutorial made me think that they see value similar to what I see. |
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The spotlight keeps shining, our next Meet the Maintainer Discussion has arrived 🎉 , come get to know @aalmiray ❤️ |
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Meet today’s maintainer, @Roshanjossey from First Contributions! First Contributions helps beginners to start with contributing to open source projects.
It starts with a hands-on tutorial where users learn the process of contributing on GitHub by contributing to the same project.
Read on to learn more about them and their project. We’ll be selecting five people who ask a question to win a $30 GitHub Shop voucher!
What was one of your first contributions to an open source project?
I see from my search this PR is the oldest one. I remember this was when I was on a quest to build the best vim configuration for myself. I was also learning React. I wanted to share how I configured the snippet management plugin with React snippet plugin with more people by updating its setup instructions. I remember my first few code contributions were in projects by smc (https://github.com/smc). I was very happy about getting involved there because smc is engaged in maintaining open source projects in my mother tongue.
How did you make the decision to become a maintainer of your project, what did you consider?
When I was in university, I had a lot of motivation to contribute to open source but couldn't because of a number of reasons. When I became comfortable with open source, I wanted to help everybody facing the barriers that stopped me from getting into open source. I wanted it to be as inclusive and accessible as possible. I got a lot of feedback in the beginning that helped a lot in that direction.
What type of contributions is your project looking for?
First contributions is specifically about learning and practicing how to contribute to open source projects. So, that's what I look forward to the most. More people going through the tutorial in Readme and following it.
What do you enjoy doing away from your keyboard?
I had been building a hand-wired split keyboard recently. I'll share the firmware I wrote for that on GitHub soon. I also do a bit of wood carving, crocheting etc. I love repairing things, let it be a broken bowl or houseplant or clothes.
What is your developer superpower?
I can open an HTML file in vim, center a div and exit vim, all in 10 seconds. (I've read that these are two of the hardest things for developers) Jokes aside, I'm good at asking for help. I also get a lot of help without asking for it. I'm also good at changing my perspective. There were instances where on some community suggestions, my first thought was "no". I didn't reply then. After taking some time to think through it and understanding their perspective, I adopted those suggestions.
Have questions for @Roshanjossey? Ask them in a comment! We’ll be selecting five people who ask a question to win a $30 GitHub Shop voucher!
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