New Contributor here and can I just pick up an issue without mentions?

[seungholee-dev]

Hello, New Contributor here and I am thinking of picking up one with a first-good-issue labeled issue from backlogs.
When I am working on another person's issue, do we usually comment that I will be working on that?

If not, I am wondering what happens if I work on fixing the issue and whilst I am fixing it, others create a pull request that will close the issue and the get accepted? In this case, does my work go in vain(The code I was trying to fix)?

Just wanted to ask in general in open source occasions.
Thank you :)

[peterwoodworth]

Answer: Hey @seungholee-dev,
It may be considered polite to let someone know you are working on an issue so that no one tries to take away from work you've already done, but generally conflicts like these don't occur. If you start working on an issue and want to ensure no one else starts to work on it, you could also open up a draft PR which has closes # in the body. This will let anyone on the issue know that someone is already working on it, and they may even give feedback or helpful advice on the PR if you need 🙂
There are no hard and fast rules, if you try to claim an issue to work on, people will generally let you claim it and work on it and this isn't rude at all. But it's not a requirement at all to leave a comment
Hope this answers your questions and concerns, let me know if there's anything else I can answer

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[jumic]

@seungholee-dev There is also a Slack workspace related to AWS CDK: https://cdk.dev/
Join the #contributing channel for more contributor-related discussions.

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