24 Pull Requests

You may wish to learn some new skills but wonder where to start. Or you may be curious about how, or with what, you can contribute to open-source software, in general or for projects you specifically rely on.<p>Having your first patch accepted is a strange experience. It&#x27;s hard to describe, but feels really, really good. Definitely recommended!<p>For those who can allocate the time for it, this is a <i>great</i> initiative. It makes discovering potential projects where contributions are welcome easy, and it makes it easy to identify which projects which may be a good fit for your contributions.<p>I have a relatively new project up and running, and I already see a couple of forks. I&#x27;m curious about what December will bring :)

24 Pull Requests is back again for a 3rd year, encouraging people to give back to open source projects that they&#x27;ve been benefiting from all year.<p>The site itself is also open source: <a href="https://github.com/24pullrequests/24pullrequests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;24pullrequests&#x2F;24pullrequests</a>

Just wanted to say that I&#x27;m not a programmer, but there are still things I can contribute to Open Source projects during this ace project. Fix those typos, add some documentation for a piece of software you use or myriad other things. I only mention it because I didn&#x27;t realise this until somebody pointed it out to me!<p>Also, for any JavaScript types out there looking for something to contribute to, this plugin[0] would help me fly a Quadcopter much easier! Just sayin&#x27; ;-)<p>[0]:<a href="https://github.com/andrew/webflight-onscreen-keyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrew&#x2F;webflight-onscreen-keyboard</a>

Yeah, even more people dropping random patches, going away and not responding to questions. I would prefer people doing 1 pull request and taking care of it (test, docs) than getting 24 useless pull request. I had some pretty toxic behaviour last year because of this. Though I appreciate the idea I think it give a pretty bad idea to people of what Open Source are.<p>I&#x27;ve just spend 4 hours on chat the last 2 days explaining a new comer how to use git&#x2F;github and make a pull request; it was a pleasure. Though it is less and less the case when people just drop by and go away.<p>I know I&#x27;m getting old and grumpy, but I feel the day I&#x27;ll say the F word is getting closer.<p>Please Someone open minus24pullrequest.com and ask people to help test and review code instead of just submitting extra work for maintainer.

This is a great initiative and one that I would to be able to be a part of but I have such a hard time coming up with things to do. I have only made a few contributions to open source projects previously and all those were cases where I was using some open source library with limitations or flaws that I had to fix in order to be able to use them in my software and where I fixed them first for me and then decided to share them back with the world. In many cases I added or modified functionality through multiple checkins that amounted to rather large pull requests. I just have a hard time seeing how I will be able to a) find anything worthwhile to contribute and b) be able to do so every day.

Login using github doesn&#x27;t seem to work (dns lookup failed), in case anyone from the site is reading comments.

There seems to be barely more than one person per participating organization, wonder why.

+1