how to really contribute to open source?

You go to https://github.com/explore. There you have a nice overview with projects that could need contribution. Find some relatively new projects that still need contributions. Do you want to have the honor of adding stuff to a programming language? I recommend you contribute to https://github.com/vtereshkov/.... This one still doesn't have regex or socket communication for example. You sitll can add to the core of the language, how cool is that?

Umka has potential. It's almost a native typescript-ish language. It claims to outperform Python but not when I use their benchmarks. But very close.

But the first option I mentioned: I fixed a lot of typo's in random projects. But typo pull requests get often ignored and many times README's are generated so it wasn't the correct file to update so the change is invalid.

You can also contribute to my projects. Would be nice.

0. Pick a project if you haven't

1. Fork it if you haven't

2. Look for bugs, you can generally find them posted under "issues" or similar. Alternatively, use the program for a while until YOU find a bug or annoyance you'd like to work on

3. git checkout main

4. git reset --hard upstream/main

5. git reset clean -xdf

6. git pull upstream main

7. git checkout -b branch-name

8. Read the code to locate the issue. When you're new to a codebase, this is the hard part. You have to grep around a mountain of source files for what you're looking for and narrow down what the fuck you're supposed to be looking at

9. Write the patch

A. git add changed_files

B. git commit -m "Fix thing"

C. git push -u origin name-of-branch

D. Send a PR

E. Be patient

F. jmp 0x00

You're in luck. I happen to be the president of open-source. Here's my IBAN:

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You can contact the hacker for help

@antigermanist noooo why do you call ragnar? This is not a spam rant.I have to manually fix it if you abuse ragnar.

Edit: ragnar doesn't come. User has good reputation.

@chrisdave978 that 'hacker' of yours can't even write a spam bot. He's getting dominated.

@antigermanist the bots are now doing kinda the only thing left what is possible within margins of my filter. But that's ok. I can recognize this behavior as well

@retoor i was calling it for the comment. How does it work for comments?

@antigermanist that's a big secret. Read the source :P But in this scenario it won't work. It's protected against abuse. In the serious change of behavior of the spam I can see that someone is changing their bot behavior. I won't give them tips :P