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3..2..1 Launch!: My journey from zero to Django Contributions

DEV Community·(James) Kanin Kearpimy·6 months ago
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Though contribution sound big, its process require many tiny step composed up for single PR. I hope my reflection journey of Django contribution via Djangonaut program will inspire anyone who want to contribute to open source.

Introduction

When I surfed website before coding-ere. There was always a question; How was these website created? Such question was clarified during my first web-programming. We have to write HTML/CSS and Javascript. Then we plugged it to server-side application . Well, I accidentally came across open-source framework, Django , because of admin feature my client requested 5 years ago.

Contribution Challenge

As you may know, using open source and contributing to it are totally different. I thought it include: reading contribution.md, select an issue, fixing thing, open pull request, then boom! merged!!!

Well, that's 50% true. But less people talks about hidden parts.…

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