how to really contribute to open source?

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

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