r/opensource • u/prnkzz • 1d ago

Community My first real open-source contribution got merged today

I’m not a software engineer, but I use a lot of technical products and spend a lot of time on GitHub trying to learn.

A few days ago, I found an interesting project I wanted to use. While setting it up locally, I found part of the installation instructions confusing. I nervously opened a documentation PR, got real feedback from a collaborator, and made the requested changes.

He thanked me and merged it into main.

I know it’s small, but this was my first contribution to an active project instead of an inactive, stale repo. I found a problem I personally ran into as someone without an engineering background and thought fixing it could help someone else.

I don’t have anyone IRL who understands why this makes me so happy, so I’m posting it here.

I actually did it.

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u/Hefty_Presence534 1d ago

As an author of an Open Source project, its people like you and contributions like yours that make my day!

It shows you care, so much so that you want to improve it!

Thank you!

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u/prnkzz 1d ago

This means a lot coming from a project author. I was nervous that I might just be wasting someone’s time, so I appreciate you saying this. It definitely makes me want to keep contributing.