[jcubic]

I would not edit the post in any way, leave it as it is. But I would love to read a follow up. You can link to that new post from that old one.

For me your article is a revelation, didn't realized that I can just read old PR to check how to contribute to Open Source project. I've never read this advice in any guide that show how to contribute to FLOSS and I'm working on Open Source for more than 10 years (I'm sometimes read about how to get started, when I was starting with OSS, there were no guides like this).

I would give this advice to anyone that that want to contribute, it's even more important than looking for good-first-issue or help-wanted. This should be first thing the person do when trying to contribute. Look at old PR.

For me learning new language is side effect. You always learn when you're practicing with real project and work with more experienced developers. It doesn't matter if you work on closed source program in your own team at work or on Open Source. But with Open Source there may be more people, and big project are usually created by very smart people.