This tutorial focuses on the essential aspects of contributing to open-source, the GitHub pull request workflow. Many projects follow similar setups we cover, and expects contributions to their repositories in the form of pull requests, whether it is the addition of new code, fixing bugs, or contributing to the documentation.
For actual projects, please always consult their own contributing guides as some of the specific steps may differ from this very generic tutorial.
For further read about some open-source contributing workflows see any of the following for scikit-learn, numpy, or a generic overview at Scientific Python:
- crash course in contributing to open source material presented at a scikit-learn sprint,
- contributing to NumPy with guides for code contributions,
- Developer and Contributor Guides as Scientific Python
And finally, to further your Git branching skills and to gain muscle memory, do make time to go through these tutorials: https://learngitbranching.js.org