After a while I realised, there are many repositories like this one, I found one where you just write your name to a markdown file. It made me think, yes they have an even simpler idea, but it won’t get you started building anything important.
We made it so there is actually a visible outcome when you contribute and we have the option to also make it into a decent web page if enough of the community decides to help out
We can create a read.me that links to similar projects. People can never get enough git practice, 'specially early on. it’s really something you have to do over and over to get it down.
We have now moved towards building a project so our repository is now also appropriate for more experienced folk.
We now have issues for everyone and if you want to contribute to an open source project, you might aswell start here
I’ve added a project to work on a ‘home page’ as a jumping off ground to other open source projects so people can add their name here and then work on other projects…
Sorry… just a bit behind on everything… you can still go in and add your name to the project…
or if you are brave… start adding a nav bar…
What I want to do is break down the tasks into smaller bits as first-time-issue… but if you want to start in on it that’s cool too…
If you are super brave, build it on your local, then instead of doing a PR build an issue with a snippet of the same code in the issue and offer it up as a ‘up for grabs’ first-timers-welcome issue…
Thanks. No problem . I was referring to the new project about cloning a ‘home page’ - I wasn’t exactly sure how that was suppose to work. I’ve already added done the adding my name thing
Angie Gonzalez and Arlene Perez created a GitHub app called First Timers that automates most of the process of creating first-timers-only issues. Install it the app on your repositories and commit simple changes to branches with names starting with first-timers- – the First Timers App will turn it into a fully fledged issue with all information a first-time Open Source contributor will need to make their first pull request.
@DarrenfJ finally got around to doing this. Git is some crazy beast. Very powerful though.
I submitted my PR. First time. Now that I’ve gone through it all I don’t think it’s so bad. Thanks for the opportunity to practice.
The one confusing part I didn’t quite get was that I needed to push my branch to my remote fork. I think it all came together in the end when I saw that GitHub automatically gave me a button to “review and make a pr”. Thanks again!
Are you guys making any more issues?
btw the contributor page looks like something from the myspace era now… lol… how did that happen!!?