What I learned from my first two open-source contributions
I recently made my first two public contributions under this account: a test pull request and a separate compatibility issue. They were small, but the process taught me a few things that are easy to miss when you're focused on getting your contribution count up.
An issue can be unassigned and still be socially claimed
Before picking a task, I passed on two issues where someone had already commented that they wanted to work on them.
Neither issue had a formal assignee. Technically, I could have started anyway. Socially, that would have been annoying.
