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by dabiged 1185 days ago
My first OSS project contributions went like this:

* Start using some software that I liked

* Read the documentation and notice poor grammar, punctuation, typos etc.

* submit PR for documentation (man pages, comment lines etc.)

* get PR merged and introduced to the dev team.

* submit more small PRs that are code based (expand existing classes, add minor features) etc.

* the maintainers will generally give feedback that your code doesn't fit into style guides, linters, case conventions etc. So patch it up and get it merged.

* Now you can pretty much do whatever. Test the code on Arm64. Add new OSes to their build pipeline.

My advice: Start small. Actually talk to the maintainers.