How to Find Good First Issues in Open Source?

explained how you can find good first issues in open source projects and get your contributor journey started.

1) Finding beginner friendly issues in open source

  • Look for repositories with a wide range of projects, including the largest ones like Kubernetes

  • Search for good first issues in the issues tag

2) Finding beginner friendly open source issues

  • How to get started with good first issues

  • Resources to help you find beginner friendly issues

3) Get started with open source and find good first issues

  • Watch the Git and GitHub tutorial with over 200,000 views

  • Participate in the Twitter quest with Twilio Quest

4) Join the mailing list or community slack channel.

  • By joining the mailing list or slack channel, you can stay updated with the organization's activities and discussions.

  • Kubernetes has its own slack channel where you can join the community and get involved.

5) Tips for finding beginner-friendly issues

  • Join the organization channel to ask for beginner-friendly issues

  • Use a website that lists JavaScript open source projects with good first issues

6) Improving open source projects

  • You can check if a project has an assignee and ask if they need any help

  • There are good first issues available in both C and C++ for open source contributions

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Reference Youtube Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkkPzTuOXw&t=205s&ab_channel=KunalKushwaha

Find good first issues: https://goodfirstissue.dev