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by echlipse 1668 days ago
My first commit to a fairly big opensource project is still not merged. The project is very beginner friendly but the project maintainers wanted my commit in a certain way as per their standards. It was not even the actual code but the commenting and variable names that needed to be changed. I had to re-review it many times before it was ready for merge. It took almost 2 to 3 months with some long time gap before I made perfect submission. In this process it seemed crazy to me why anyone will be looking through all this code made by a beginner with so many mistakes and patiently guiding them through it for free of cost. It made me appreciate their work more. Even though it isn’t merged yet I still got to learn a lot in this process.

Btw the PR didn’t get merged yet because we need to fetch data using an api of another source which is poorly documented.