I've seen new open source contributors thrive, and some of them get stuck and fizzle out.
As one of the maintainers on MobX-State-Tree, I'm always trying to help our contributors succeed and merge productive code to the project in a sustainable way.
I had the chance to talk about this with Rebecca Dodd for the Codecademy blog. I'm really grateful for the opportunity, and I hope this little blog post makes it at least a little easier for some folks to get started contributing to OSS. Check it out!
https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/start-contributing-to-open-source/