Ancestors

Written by Sarah Rainsberger on 2024-11-09 at 19:56

This is what weekends are for: our community builds things, and we jump to play with them!

One of our @astro Starlight contributors shared a "credit" plugin. Within minutes, it's on my site so I can show off my starlight-blog template pride!

(Colours entirely of my own (mis)doing. 🌭 You can have a normal looking Starlight Blog.)

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Toot

Written by Sarah Rainsberger on 2024-11-09 at 20:35

@sarah11918 @astro And in true open-source spirit (OSS!), I have just submitted the project's first pull request. 🤝

(By request of the plugin author, to be clear. No unsolicited pull requests from THIS GAL.)

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Descendants

Written by Sarah Rainsberger on 2024-11-09 at 20:43

@sarah11918 @astro I think there's a real larger picture here, too:

Someone built a small, cute plugin with a couple of preconfigured options. I, using nothing but my sharp pattern-matching skills and attention to detail, added a third option. (And of course updated the docs from "two..." to "three...")

THIS. IS. open-source contributing. This is building small, fun things together, and contributing whatever your (even limited) skills and experience might allow. #opensource #oss

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Written by Ayo :Ayco: on 2024-11-09 at 20:46

@sarah11918 @astro are unsolicited PRs not welcome? Didn’t know that… 😄

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Written by Sarah Rainsberger on 2024-11-09 at 20:51

@ayo Depends entirely on the repo and depends on WHAT...

"Not everything belongs in docs..." 😅

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Written by Ayo :Ayco: on 2024-11-09 at 21:09

@sarah11918 oh yeah, and I guess if it’s not a straightforward change and needs discussion, unsolicited PRs are not very efficient

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Written by Sarah Rainsberger on 2024-11-09 at 21:42

@ayo Right! And even in cases where there's a clear problem, a PR is one particular solution to the problem.

We just typically find that if we talk about the problem first (e.g. file an issue!) then we can all converge on a preferred solution, rather than jumping to it.

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Written by Ayo :Ayco: on 2024-11-09 at 21:51

@sarah11918 clear! thanks a lot Sarah for answering. I need lots of guidance on open source way of work now, as I also have to guide others more frequently

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Written by Sarah Rainsberger on 2024-11-09 at 22:15

@ayo It also sucks to have to reject someone's PR! 😅 So anything we can do to make sure opened PRs are accepted PRs is a winning strategy! 💪

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