The beginner's guide to contributing to a GitHub project

This is a guide to contributing to an open source project that uses GitHub. It’s mostly based on how I’ve seen Zend Framework, Slim Framework and joind.in operate. However, this is a general guide so check your project’s README for specifics.TL;DRSkip to the summary.Step 1: Set up a working copy on your computerFirstly you need a local fork of the the project, so go ahead and press the “fork” button in GitHub. This will create… continue reading.