How To Get Started With Open Source

Getting started in open source is intimidating. It seems daunting jumping into an unfamiliar world so in this video I will guide you through the process of finding your first issue and creating your first pull request.
🧠 Concepts Covered:
- How to find a good first issue
- How to create a pull request
- How to fork a repository
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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:08 - Finding Good Repos/Issues
02:27 - How To Find Contribution Rules
04:08 - Finding An Issue
05:25 - Making Your Changes
08:36 - Making A Pull Request
11:19 - Merging A Pull Request
12:49 - Outro
#OpenSource #WDS #GitHub

[@divyanshagarwal993]

I'm glad you waited until October end to publish this video or else a lot of people would misuse this video to gain some easy PR merges lol

[@palashrathore6277]

don't forget there is another October coming in 12 months!

[@user-cn1rz3ft4q]

What do u mean?

[@sirajmussafirr147]

@@user-cn1rz3ft4q hacktober fest 😂

[@divyanshagarwal993]

I think an extension to this video that you can make is how to keep your local fork updated with the main repo and stuff like rebasing etc, since an actually meaningful PR isn't going to get merged right away and until it does get accepted the main repo is bound to change and thus dealing with branches and keeping your local fork updated can get tricky at times.

[@whoman7930]

Yes, that's what I was thinking. This really needs a second part

[@krishgarg2806]

That's exactly what I was looking for. I want to know what to do if in the meanwhile they make changes to the original repo.

[@amitkumargupta-]

This seems more of Git topics than OSS topics.

[@aceborja1656]

I just make my first pull request just now. I really appreciate your video, easy to follow and greatly simplified!

[@nsharma4981]

I hadn't contributed to OS till now, since it seemed rather intimidating, and all other videos explaining this were too long to sustain my interest. Thanks to you, I understood this stuff in just 13 minutes! And you make it seem soo easy. I know I sound like a broken record, but really, you're the best teacher one could ask for, Kyle! 😄

[@zawadahmed5484]

I can't explain just how much I learned from a single 13 minutes video ❤️

[@phantomproduction5757]

Straight to the point, Just what I needed. Thanks, man.

[@breakinggreatness1010]

This is very helpful. I have spent many hours solving GIT issues, so this is a very good explanation - nice job 👍

[@hectortorres6567]

Thank you, this was, in my opinion, a legit step-by-step instruction on how to contribute! I really appreciate it!

[@henry_9]

Thank you so much! This is exactly the information that I need!

[@JimKernix]

Thanks so much! I just started looking into contributing to open source and I didn't really know how to do it. For beginners to web design and development, there is so much to learn that it can be overwhelming.

[@nicklandreth2527]

I searched you just to find your courses. Then there was this video with exactly what I need to learn waiting.

[@CodeWithTomi]

I've been waiting for something like this. Thanks a lot

[@tonypatriota6408]

Bro would you give me some tips on an open source project I want to start?...

[@tcheuffayvan6422]

Thank you Kyle for this great guide.

[@saideepesh6036]

I think the most imp thing in contributing to open-source(beginners) is understanding the issues and writing code that solves the issue

[@Amar11115]

Thanks. I was searching for just time concept.

[@average-dev69]

I had to realize all of this just by myself a couple of weeks ago but it's good to look twice at some of those steps.

[@renu3463]

The most clear explanation of Open Sourcing on whole of KZbin

[@jixiangli4752]

This is really helpful to me. Thanks so much Kyle

[@SeniorJuniorDeveloper]

Awesome video, very clear and helpful as always thanks!

[@simaqshanavas1624]

Thank you Kyle everything is so simple

[@code-ugaming8364]

Hands down the best explanation!!

[@prashoonbhattacharjee8211]

Thanks Kyle for this Informative video!!🙂

[@NehaKumari-dr7gs]

Thank you for explaining this topic

[@stevenchung934]

Great explanation, thank you!

[@mehtabahmed6092]

Thank you so much, always a great fan of you!

[@shridharsarraf2188]

This was so simply explained by you. Awesome kyle awesome 👍👏👏

[@ashikmahmud4076]

Thank you! this video is helpful lot for me!!

[@Shailendrakumar-ge5cf]

Thanks for sharing , this was one of the best videos that helped me to understand how to open source for beginners ♥

[@shishirkumar9014]

Thank you for creating this helpful video

[@ameyakeskar5577]

Wow!! Thanks a lot Kyle ❤

[@hugobqd]

Perfect, as always!

[@isaacopeyemirobert7868]

Ohh Thanks a lot Kyle.. this is just the perfect video to get into open source.

[@muhendis_]

this was an awesome video, thank you so much

[@jayanand8068]

Excellent video right onto the point 👌👌👌

[@alecn4115]

This video is amazing, your explanation was very clear and easy to understand, now I can start contributing to open source in PHP 😁 thank you

[@navidkh1883]

Appreciate it for the video 🌹

[@nairobidenver3348]

Thank you so much!!

[@metal0opa]

Thank You so much!!

[@azatecas]

hey Kyle, could you do a Careers based video, how to properly apply to companies and what kind of projects to showcase to impress recruiters. You once stated you had experience interviewing and soft skills is something important to master for developers as well. I only ask because i feel the burnout from applying to so many places. Love your content regardless

[@acticfl]

he already made a video about what projects would help your resume

[@ashleypean]

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[@elmersbalm5219]

This video should be recommended viewing every April 1st.

[@FreedomForKashmir]

I liked the way you compared with react along the way ... it made it more realistic and meaningful

[@anshulanand02]

This was awesome!

[@rubenuijtde]

This is such a great guide again, Kyle!

[@tonypatriota6408]

Bro would you give me some tips on an open source project I want to start?...

[@amritdhandharia1333]

I absolutely love you channel.

[@mehdi1193]

Big thanks from Morocco

[@sradanbiri6344]

Very well Thanks bro

[@shadsleek_b3551]

Good content .. keep up

[@acemusiq900]

Bro I fucking love your channel.. I just started my game project cause of you!! You fucking Rock bro!!!!!!!

[@kishanpatel6113]

Great video 👌

[@melikekecelioglu6883]

my fav video on KZbin

[@prateeksingh5394]

Very helpful

[@bhagyashingale5663]

Amazing stuff

[@ankitshrivastava3672]

Thanks for the video,i like it... but what should i do as maintainer of a project when i get a pull Request but showing that... there is a merge conflict I'm learning, so correct me if if i'm not asking correctly

[@rivondavetech]

Thanks very much

[@WadieGamer]

Thank you

[@arindam1249]

Great 👌🏻❤️

[@st.deykun]

What I still did not google out is the way to updated our forked repository after few months to solve the second issue.

[@debnathmriganka2010]

any Idea of Cost, Quotation and estimator Software (Open Source) for Printing and packaging Industries?

[@mikesantiago_]

In this example, is the branch really necessary? Can't the forked version master merge with the original repo's master via pull request?

[@krithiksankar7753]

Good first issues in most popular repos always seem to be taken/ assigned to someone else and considering good first issue don't show up very often it makes it harder to get started in those projects. Any suggestions ?

[@krithiksankar7753]

@Ivan got it, thanks!

[@spongechameleon6940]

I’ve seen the same, so instead of hunting for issues I just found something that I would be interested in using, and after messin around found some bugs myself. Pretty boring but my PR got accepted, so o guess it’s a good way to start

[@krithiksankar7753]

@@spongechameleon6940 I'll try that, thanks!

[@deonrich3149]

Youre my favorite AI kyle

[@bunnybloods768]

Bro, if you dont mind. Can you tell me. At what age you started learning this all programming and how many years took you to understand all concepts? Please bro.

[@ojinnakanjeze2980]

Good video

[@gawi834]

what kind of CMD do you use

[@jlav2170]

Why didnt you merge main with fix-typo ? And then push to origin

[@kushalshukla444]

hey kyle, after cloning the code in my computer ,its hard to read .i mean there are lots of folder and files where to start .

[@viktorshatalov1920]

Все круто. Спасибо.

[@yenespace406]

I might sound "STEWPED" but it's just am a newbie. Can I use source code (for mobile app) and change the Ui completely and also remove/add slight things and later give it a new name? or is it that opensource is only for contributing to the app to be better only?

[@pikachu-zt9fq]

That's a great idea. I'm not a Android developer but this does sound brilliant

[@jomy10-games]

What should I do with my fork of the project after a pull request has been settled?

[@7heRequiem]

But wont cloning whole projects such as React would have a very large file size for all the codes when as beginners we might only need to edit few codes?

[@julianriedinger2540]

How do i continue from here if i am the owner of the project? Should i clone again to have all the new changes being made?

[@MohAmuza]

you didn't answer my question when you create a branch, let say I modified a method, how can I run that code?

[@ahmmadawshaf]

I use Gitlab over GitHub, so can I still contribute to open sources or do I need to switch to GitHub?

[@ahmmadawshaf]

@Ivan thank you for the clarification!

[@fuseteam]

no you do not have to switch to github, it's actually easier build things on gitlab

[@fuseteam]

@Ivan that's not completely true, gitlab is simply younger than github. for example gitlab offers premium features for free to opensource projects which allows the small projects like ubports to build software on gitlab servers

[@fuseteam]

@Ivan yeah i said not "completely true" because there must be some basis for people to say this; you're not the only one who makes this statement. but i have to say that many open source project actually migrated to gitlab after microsoft bough github ;)

[@fuseteam]

@Ivan yep pretty much xD i also use both fwiw ;3

[@omzer97]

Why you forked? can't you just clone and do the same stuff (open PR and update it)?

[@DevProTips]

If you don't have permission to write to the project, you won't be able to push your changes (you must be a maintainer). When you create a fork, you'll be able to push changes and then you can make a pull request requesting that your fork be merged with the original project.

[@omzer97]

@@DevProTips Thanks, that was helpful

[@hopcfizl3671]

The video you mentioned doesn't show how to set it up

[@caitlinsvlogsz123]

I've had this problem in vs code with my node.js. Whenever I use document.getElementById or anything else using document it says document in undefined in the console. Can someone please help me solve the problem. I don't know what else to do. Thanks in advanced!

[@joelqrq]

You can join his discord and ask your question there

[@meyw207]

document essentially relates to the DOM of the web browser. Which is the client. Nodejs is a server side programming language which does not recognize this syntax. But still there are ways you can make it work if you really need it but it's not the best practice. If you need to use document, it's best to use that in your front-end files, ex: index.js. Hope this helps!! :)

[@usama57926]

*Interesting...*

[@kamaravichow]

You forgot about scary conflicts

[@saketaryan2227]

2 years ago react had 30k stars !!!

[@urbanostudio9754]

Hey buddy just a quick suggestion. Please make a video on react and explain how to sort an array object by name, date, ascending and descending order by selecting from an option?

Someone can recommend me some open sources projects for joining, I have 5 years of experiencies as a Php/Mysql/Js Developer, but I haven't worked in an open source project yet. Thanks in advance

[@shawnlee6775]

Svelte/Sveltekit. There are a lot of issues to solve there.

[@tomzhao8262]

Hey Kyle, when will you come out?

[@kleinmarb4362]

THATS DA FOKIN BIGGEST WAVE IVE EVER SEEN BROOTHH

[@leandrogonzalezcuello9942]

Lol, i just search for this on google, to collaborate on documentation

[@renu3463]

13:00 subscribed to the channel for more videos juuust like this😁

[@WebDevSimplified]

Welcome!

[@renu3463]

@@WebDevSimplified I mean more Open Sourcing content on this channel

[@WebDevSimplified]

Well I don't have much more content directly linked to OSS on my channel but if you want OSS content check out Eddie Jauode

[@renu3463]

@@WebDevSimplified great🌟

[@nikhilmwarrier7948]

Hey Kyle! Please go and check that wds-oss-example/oss-example repo again....

[@RahulAhire]

You should custom your GitHub theme. Scott tolenski have made a video on it

[@ramiyushuvaev]

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[@SmedleyButler1]

Do ANY "open source" reviewers EVER comment on updates being "clean" anywhere? NOBODY talks about updates ACTUALLY being examined and vetted. Should it be called "assumed safe" source?

[@omegamotivation144]

First!

[@sid5733]

first

[@samuelhulme8347]

Basically all ready understood Github, also gitlab is similar

[@numofrancis5176]

Web dev simplified ampa

[@ricardomorales9413]

Wow... you're really handsome.

[@siddharthtanwar1529]

He has a porcupine on his head.

[@harshjain8139]

Bro I would recommmend to change your video thumbnail

[@dopamine_Seeker]

I have a question, why you waste your time making video instead of making any A.I based software or working in google?

[@VH-eq2ci]

At 1:37 stop the video and look at the bottom 2 developer second name. Thank me later :D

[@stark.aritra]

Such a clickbait video. This is just a how to make a pull request tutorial. Nothing about this is open source contribution related.

[@WebDevSimplified]

This video shows a complete beginner how to find an open source repository, how to find the contributing guide, how to find a good first issue, how to fork and clone an open source repository, how to make changes and commit them, and then finally after all that it shows how to make a pull request. Making a pull request is only one small segment of this video and it is a crucial step in contributing to open source.

[@aammssaamm]

@@WebDevSimplified Then it should be called "Get started with GIT". Open source is not a repository.

[@ripern]

@@aammssaamm How much was about getting started with Git?

[@meyw207]

Well, just don't watch the video.. Solved!

[@aammssaamm]

@@meyw207 Well, just don't read comments.. Solved!

[@iambrijeshtoo]

Thank you