{"id":1786,"date":"2017-10-08T16:19:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T10:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2017-10-08T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T10:49:03","slug":"contributing-to-go-in-54-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/contributing-to-go-in-54-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing to Go in 54 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

With absolutely zero knowledge of Go 54 days ago, I decided to contribute to the Go project. Why? Put simply, I was bored. The thrill of learning something new, and contributing to a massive OSS project like Go caught my attention.<\/p>\n

How?<\/h2>\n
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  1. Find an issue that’s tagged as\u00a0HelpWanted.\n
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    1. There’s a “HelpWanted<\/em><\/a>” tag, which is\u00a0applied to issues where the Go community is looking for somebody on the outside to fix. I found one such a issue, #21216<\/a> with the topic being x\/build\/cmd\/cl: build broken<\/em>. This seemed a great place to start.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Go through their Contribution Guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    3. Although I skipped this part at first, the commenting guide<\/a>.\n
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      1. I split the issue at hand into two parts, one that provided the resource, and the other to actually fix the reported issue.<\/li>\n
      2. On my very first CL (change list), my commenting style varied greatly. I was asked to review the commenting guide. Read it. Seriously, read it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      3. A must read before starting, Effective Go<\/a>.<\/li>\n
      4. Take a tour of it, in A Tour of Go<\/a>.<\/li>\n
      5. Use Gogland<\/a> (I love JetBrains for their outstanding IDEs).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Learning Go from scratch was a fairly simple task. It’s just a new syntax, nothing more. Moreover, there’s always Stack Overflow to help you out. Think of SO as a passive mentor, who gives you advice when it’s asked.<\/p>\n

        I’ve got to thank a couple of people who helped me\u00a0along the path, @kevinburke, @bradfitz and @andybons. They reviewed my code, and gave my changes a +2, and submitted them.<\/p>\n

        What does it feel like?<\/h2>\n

        It feels like the first time you try to dive into a swimming pool. You don’t know whether you can do it, but you do it nevertheless. Getting my first two\u00a0CLs accepted\u00a0was a little challenging, but definitely enthralling. Talking to other like-minded people across the globe, committed to fixing issues and innovating, is a completely new experience to\u00a0me. I’m now\u00a0set on a path to contribute to Go, as\u00a0it’s a fun weekend exercise, and moreover, just because I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        With absolutely zero knowledge of Go 54 days ago, I decided to contribute to the Go project. Why? Put simply, I was bored. The thrill of learning something new, and contributing to a massive OSS project like Go caught my attention. How? Find an issue that’s tagged as\u00a0HelpWanted. There’s a “HelpWanted” tag, which is\u00a0applied to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,596],"tags":[601,599,602,565,597,600,598,459,603],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-go","tag-cl","tag-contributing","tag-getting","tag-go","tag-gogland","tag-open","tag-oss","tag-source","tag-started"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t