Open Supply

It simply is perhaps value you contributing too

Open supply tasks usually depend on the contributions of a large number of individuals to maintain them bug-free, safe, updated, and consistently shifting ahead.

Who’re these individuals? Effectively, “they” may very well be you and me! There may be nothing stopping us from contributing, other than somewhat effort and time. So, would it not be value our time? and what precisely is concerned if we determine to present it a go?

I made a decision to undergo the method of contributing to a well-known, and closely utilised, open supply library — Pandas.

Hopefully, what I skilled alongside the best way will give an perception into what’s concerned, and probably spotlight a method by which you may be capable of contribute too. Or, on the very least, it’s going to present a good suggestion of what goes on behind the scenes!

In one in every of my earlier articles I highlighted a bug that I had found when utilizing the pandas library to generate boxplots.

I initially regarded up the bug to see if anybody else had the identical downside. I discovered a stackoverflow publish, which seemed to be about the identical downside I used to be encountering: