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| Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub | You can find ways to contribute to open source projects on {% data variables.product.product_name %} that are relevant to you. |
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Discovering relevant projects
If there's a particular topic that interests you, visit github.com/topics/<topic>. For example, if you are interested in machine learning, you can find relevant projects and good first issues by visiting https://github.com/topics/machine-learning. You can browse popular topics by visiting Topics. You can also search for repositories that match a topic you're interested in. For more information, see "Searching for repositories."
If you've been active on {% data variables.product.product_name %}, you can find personalized recommendations for projects and good first issues based on your past contributions, stars, and other activities in Explore. You can also sign up for the Explore newsletter to receive emails about opportunities to contribute to {% data variables.product.product_name %} based on your interests. To sign up, see Explore email newsletter.
Keep up with recent activity from repositories you watch and people you follow in the "All activity" section of your personal dashboard. For more information, see "About your personal dashboard."
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Finding good first issues
If you already know what project you want to work on, you can find beginner-friendly issues in that repository by visiting github.com/<owner>/<repository>/contribute. For an example, you can find ways to make your first contribution to electron/electron at https://github.com/electron/electron/contribute.
Opening an Issue
If you encounter a bug in an open source project, check if the bug has already been reported. If the bug has not been reported, you can open an issue to report the bug according to the project's contribution guidelines.
Validating an issue or pull request
There are a variety of ways that you can contribute to open source projects.
Reproducing a reported bug
You can contribute to an open source project by validating an issue or adding additional context to an existing issue.
- Validate that a PR fixes an issue as intended. Merge a PR into the related version and test. Update the PR comments with your test outcome.
Updating issues
You can contribute to an open source project by adding additional information to existing issues.
Documentation & Writing
Writing and updating documentation is a very valuable contribution. A few options might be:
- Search for any feature you use on GitHub Docs, review and improve the documentation if you can, or make suggestions.
- Simplify any open source onboarding project documentation like 'how to get started', 'how to setup project locally' etc.
- Translate documentation to another language.