Mitchell Hashimoto • 3/13/2022

Contributing to Complex Projects

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This article outlines a five-step methodology for contributing to complex software projects, applicable to both open source and proprietary work. The steps include becoming a user, building the project, learning the internals, reading recent commits, and making a small change. It provides practical advice for developers to overcome the initial barrier of entry when facing large, unfamiliar codebases.

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