How to Start Contributing to Open Source
If your work as a software developer is not directly related to open source (i.e. you don’t spend most of your working time supporting or contributing to an open-source project), your GitHub profile may be blank, except for some study projects and test assignments.
This is not necessarily bad, and it doesn’t make you a bad developer. But probably you’d like to create outside visibility of your work and boast some green tiles on your GitHub contributions timeline. So here’s a couple of tips to get you started.
Find Time in Your Working Hours
Woah, this is certainly not about sneakily hacking on open source projects in your working time — that would most likely be a violation of your contract, as this is not what you’re being paid for.
But come to think of it: surely you use at least some open-source libraries or frameworks in your project — so you could start with identifying a bug or a lacking feature that you’ve hit upon while working on your project. So fixing this bug or implementing a feature would benefit both you and your company.
For example, if you’ve already spent some time investigating a bug in your code, and finally came to the conclusion that this is a bug in a library that you use, check out their GitHub issues page and create one, if it…
