# Contributing To Open Source Projects The Right Way

DevFeed: [Contributing To Open Source Projects The Right Way](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/contributing-to-open-source-projects-the-right-way-35050.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://markushatvan.com/blog/contributing-to-open-source-projects-the-right-way/>)

Published: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Markus Hatvan](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/markus-hatvan.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [also](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/also.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contribute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contribute.md>), [contributions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributions.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to contributing to open source projects, covering the skills and workflow knowledge needed to participate successfully. It discusses pull requests, commit messages, forking, upstream repositories, and ways to contribute through code, documentation, issue responses, and internationalization.

## Source excerpt

When I started with open source contributions in April 2019, I remember being scared about doing everything wrong.