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@github Start👏by👏talking👏to👏the👏maintainers👏first. Opening a drive-by PR is likely not going to be the best experience for newcomers in OSS. If there's an issue: comment on it first. At least to say you're interested in working on it (locking it).

@github A good first issue is a gateway into open source

@github the hardest part isn't the first PR, it's finding projects that actually want contributions vs ones that just say they do

@github My account just got suspended. I maintain a couple of priority open source projects that I no longer have access to. The option to contact support doesn't work. Any ideas on how to resolve this would be very appreciated, please?

@github First contributions tank when repos lack a tagged good first issue label. The repos I keep coming back to are the ones where maintainers triage them and write a one paragraph context note.

@github sure, as long as you don't flag the account within 5 minutes of setting it up and contacting support is impossible because text messages aren't reaching Poland.