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What Are The Issues?

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What Are The Issues?
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Pradumna is a Developer Advocate, Docker Captain, and a DevOps and Go Developer. He is passionate about Open Source and has mentored hundreds of people to break into the ecosystem. He also creates content on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn, educating others about Open Source and DevOps tools. Pradumna enjoys engaging with people in person and delivering talks.

Issues are ways/methods that inform the repository owner about anything that needs attention, or keep track of like:

▪️ Bug reporting

▪️ Feature request

▪️ Documentation chnages.

🤝Raising an issue also counts as an Open Source contribution.

How to Raise/Open an Issue?

Steps:

  1. Click on the Issue tab of a Repo

  2. Click on the New Issues.

  3. Add a title and a description.

  4. Submit the Issue

Raising a quality issue.

Elements that a should issue contains.

✅ Proper title

✅ Detailed description of the problem/report

✅ Screenshot (If needed)

✅ Supporting document (if necessary)

A sample Issue image

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Checking for existing issues in a project.

Before raising/opening an issue, always check whether the issue is already been raised or not.

👇Here, is how to check the existing issues.

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Working on an Issue.

You can resolve/fix an issue by working on it and creating a PR for it. You can either work on the issue you created or the existing issue on the project.

Always discuss the issue before starting working on that, by leaving a comment below.

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