GitHub Contributions: Best practice when contributing to our code!

[emlweb]

Do you want to contribute to Open Climate Fix and make sure your contribution has impact? We're here to help. 😊

Our team has put together a step-by-step guide to help our community get the most out of contributing. The guide is available on our GitHub Homepage, and we've also shared it below. 👇

1️⃣ Check out which Github repositories are easy to contribute to in the section linked using our helpful traffic light system 🚦

2️⃣ Have a look at our list of "good first issues" – these are GitHub Issues which do not require extensive familiarity with our code and should help get you started

3️⃣ We're implementing a contributions-welcome label to highlight issues we think are good for open source contribution. Note: this is a new tag, so not many issues use it yet! Feel free to ask to be assigned other issues, too, if something catches you eye, and we will be happy to clarify if it's community friendly.

BEFORE YOU CONTRIBUTE 🚨👇

👉 Before you submit a pull request, please ask to be assigned to the issue!
👉 Some issues are there for us to get back to, and not accessible for open source contributors.
👉 Asking to be assigned first will prevent you from doing unnecessary work and lets everybody else know you're working on this already, so we don't get multiple PRs for the same issue.

Once you're assigned to an issue, submit your PR and tag someone for a review! Our coding style is here;

And finally...

👩‍💻👉 First time contributing? Here's a quick guide from firstcontributions to help you get started!

[ram-from-tvl]

Hi @emlweb ,

I'm interested in contributing to Open Climate Fix and was wondering if there are any emerging or less-explored areas you're looking to expand into that could benefit from early contributor involvement. I'd love to help out on projects in early stages or research phase. Any pointers on how to get started would be appreciated!