become_an_open_source_contributor.md

author: Patrick Merlot summary: Become an open-source software contributor id: become-open-source-software-contributor categories: education,open-source,open source,developer,contributor environments: Codelabs status: draft feedback link: github.com/Patechoc/codelabs analytics account: UA-72074624-2

Become an open-source software contributor

Open-source software will always be in crisis-mode:

• Many users eager to build on large/strong open-source community software,
• a few contributors reporting bugs, fixing them here and there
• and often a very small team of core developers overwhelmed by issues to prioritize, pull requests to review and no time left to spend on the future of their software or library.

Why becoming an open-source software developer?

What it means to become an open-source developer and how to do it?

Overview of the tutorial

Duration: 5:00

What you will learn

In this tutorial you will learn to do the following:

• do that
• do this

Prerequisites

Negative : we assume you know NOTHING. Otherwise we will state it here!

Let's get started

Duration: 5:00

References

• https://opensource.com/life/15/2/developers-guide-getting-involved-open-source
• https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/