Blog / Career Advice

My first accepted pull request

Have you ever contributed to open-source software? You should. It's easy.

Have you ever made a contribution to open-source software?

If not, you really should.

It’s not hard.

I’m not sure when I made my first contribution to open source, but GitHub tells me about my first accepted pull request back in 2014. It was just a small fix:

-#/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 #
 #
 my $version = "0.1";
Share this

Related Content

Adventures in DevOps 123: Standing Out in the Job Search Process

Strategies you can implement to stand out in a crowded job search process.

How I became a CouchDB PMC member

I learned that contributing to open source can take many forms, and may not require writing code at all.

An easy way to contribute to open source

Next time you're learning a new open source tool, consider submitting doc fixes as you see errors.