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Hello Vasu,

Welcome to the open source community of programmers. But, first you need to understand a few things:

All of the open source contributions require contributions by anyone, everyone.
There are sections, where they require contributions.
Your contribution should be following their standards, and community must approve it.

If you can follow these steps, then you can simply just publish the changes to the online repository; either through the web portal, or by using simple git commands such as git push etc. They will review the changes, and then publish if they consider it helpful.

If for some reasons, they do not approve your changes, and ask you to rethink your ideas, you will always have the option to "fork" their repository, and change it to something "entirely" different. You can implement your own ideas in the new repository, that you forked from that initial one. In the new one, you can make your own changes, make contributions. If other people enjoy it, they will have your repository as their repository and so on... That is the main benefit of having an open source contribution.

As to where to start, there are many ways that you can start. Every repository has some issues open, you can start by solving them. If there are bugs, you can start by solving and removing those bugs, if there are some translations required, do them. In other words, there are quite a lot of ways that you can contribute. Formally, here is a list of a few,

Add more features, through coding.
Solve problems, such as RAM consumption, CPU overloads.
Find and fix bugs, coding bugs, UI bugs etc.
Add translations.
Solve issues of users, provide help and mentorship to them.
Fork and update -- if main branch doesn't allow you to add a new feature, that you consider helpful. There will be many of your own ideology, they will follow you.
Provide online support, share their vision, add support using social networks.
Conduct offline events for trainings etc.

There are many ways... You just need to find the one that you will enjoy.

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan9y ago
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Hello Vasu,
Welcome to the open source community of programmers. But, first you need to understand a few things:
All of the open source contributions require contributions by anyone, everyone.
There are sections, where they require contributions.
Your contribution should be following their standards, and community must approve it.
If you can follow these steps, then you can simply just publish the changes to the online repository; either through the web portal, or by using simple git commands such as git push etc. They will review the changes, and then publish if they consider it helpful.
If for some reasons, they do not approve your changes, and ask you to rethink your ideas, you will always have the option to "fork" their repository, and change it to something "entirely" different. You can implement your own ideas in the new repository, that you forked from that initial one. In the new one, you can make your own changes, make contributions. If other people enjoy it, they will have your repository as their repository and so on... That is the main benefit of having an open source contribution.
As to where to start, there are many ways that you can start. Every repository has some issues open, you can start by solving them. If there are bugs, you can start by solving and removing those bugs, if there are some translations required, do them. In other words, there are quite a lot of ways that you can contribute. Formally, here is a list of a few,
Add more features, through coding.
Solve problems, such as RAM consumption, CPU overloads.
Find and fix bugs, coding bugs, UI bugs etc.
Add translations.
Solve issues of users, provide help and mentorship to them.
Fork and update -- if main branch doesn't allow you to add a new feature, that you consider helpful. There will be many of your own ideology, they will follow you.
Provide online support, share their vision, add support using social networks.
Conduct offline events for trainings etc.
There are many ways... You just need to find the one that you will enjoy.
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Bikesh Srivastava9y ago
Please follow steps :
Signup=>select project and pull request on your local using command
and create a local branch on your system and start work.
https://bikeshsrivastava.blogspot.in/2016/07/part-28-what-is-merge-query-in-sql.html
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