How to contribute to Open Source Community

Github is one of the most popular repository management tool for open source software. Lots and lots of people have contributed to open source for improving and adding new features to the open source software world. I will tell how to contribute to open source repositories in a few easy steps since I have contributed almost 5 Pull Requests to the open source in Loopback4 and Zerodha. Here are the links:

remove unused function by bhavyasf · Pull Request #81 · zerodha/kiteconnectjs

Docs update by bhavyasf · Pull Request #8903 · loopbackio/loopback-next

fix(cli): change artifact name by bhavyasf · Pull Request #8803 · loopbackio/loopback-next

fix(examples/connect): declare kc (kiteconnect client) with let and shorten expression in…

replace ; with , and removing unused variable by bhavyasf · Pull Request #73 ·…

In your github account, you need to first fork the repository you need to submit and merge PRs. Then in your repository, clone it in your local system and take a branch from the main branch to make necessary changes. But wait, how do we know what’s needs to be changed ?

Here are some hints:

1. Do you feel that some portion of code is unused or not used anywhere ?
2. Do you think that unit tests are not written.
3. Did you find a bug in the software regarding this repository and wanna fix ?
4. Did the repository was written in JavaScript and want to convert in TypeScript ?
5. Do you want to add any new feature.

Such kind of contributions can be made in an open source ecosystem. Now after making the changes, you can raise PR that will be pointed from the forked repository to the main repository where you forked the repository from.

Now go and mark your name in the Open Source World.