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Discussion on: How to contribute to an open-source project

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Alexandru Dejanu

Personally I don't see how "For developers without any former experience working with open-source products" can contribute directly to rather complex projects as CNCF.

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Brad Johnson

It takes bravery to open a PR for something that may seem trivial, but as someone who's managed open source communities I'm (almost as) appreciative when a newbie creates a PR that fixes a typo as when a grizzled veteran fixes a bug.

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Idan Asulin

I know it sounds like you must to be a pro before you’ll have the ability to contribute code to such projects. But let’s remember that every giant project has also simple bugs tagged by the maintainers as a “good first issue”. Those issues are usually very simple and supposed to make your first contribution as smooth as possible