In all fairness, even the smallest contributions can be valuable. Well, as long as the contributor actually does something useful, and doesn't just farm "fake" contribs.
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doesn't just farm "fake" contribs
Like comment edits that have nothing but formatting changes.
DRIVE-BY: Fix typo in comment (teh -> the)
Oh, yeah I'm a Linux kernel contributor now
If that happens occasionally it doesnt bother me, what really grinds my gears is "Added second space after colon for readability" 874749574839 times. Its clearly being done to make it appear like they have done something of value and hoping it will just get approved without thought.
Or a single pronoun fix in readme.
Hey I have a contribution to OpenCV that fixes a typo... A typo that made OpenCV not build in debug for MONTHS if not YEARS on Windows. So yeah every contribution counts.
I'm not just a PHP developer but also a PHP developer.
One of my greatest achievments in life was seeing someone explain my contribution in a blog post on PHP 8.1 or 8.2.
I have a couple of very minor commits in Linux and, in the 3.0 era, had my name at the top of a source file for a platform that never saw the light of day and was later removed wholesale.
Still feel that invisible feather in my cap.
I often wonder if that 4 or 5 year old girl who became the youngest contributor to the Linux kernel went on to develop software and if she will put it on her résumé.
Name should be pixeled IMO.
For some people, doing this easy stuff can be the first step into a world where you hear push, pull, merge, commit, ..., but don't actually know what that means.
that's why I'm so on the fence about spamming my tech skills in resume. on one hand it's completely factual and is probably favoured by whatever AI garbage is processing the resume.
on the other hand to the human that reads it. it's probably just dumb and hard to prove, they're not going to test me on 20 competency skills for the things I have listed