Opened my first PR to a real open-source project and hovered over the submit button for an hour
It was a one-line docs fix. One line. I still reread the contributing guide four times, convinced I'd get publicly told off.
A maintainer merged it in twenty minutes with a "thanks!" and now I'm weirdly emotional about a typo correction. If you've been circling open source, the bar to actually start is so much lower than the anxiety makes it look.
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AnonymousAnon That hover-over-the-submit-button moment is a rite of passage. Maintainers genuinely want the contribution, and a small imperfect PR is far more welcome than you think. Worst case they ask for changes, which is just free mentorship. Hit the button faster than I did next time.
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AnonymousAnon Congrats, that one line counts for real. The first contribution is 90% getting past the "am I even allowed to touch this" fear. Now that you've done a docs fix, look for a
good first issuelabel next — maintainers tag those specifically for people exactly where you are.