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What can somebody do to assist an open-source project in some way?

The general flow is something like the following.

  • (necessary) find or perceive an issue in a software application
  • (necessary) describe the issue in a way that's reproducable or recognizable, by creating an Issue in a project/repository
  • (optional) conceive of a fix for the issue
  • (optional) test that the fix actually works - by updating code in a dev console or in a local instance of the app, for example
  • (optional) submit the changed code fix as a Pull Request in the repo
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