I’d love to know what your genuine motivation is. Is it a desire to genuinely improve projects? Because I’ve always had the impression that people who do this just want to boost their PR counts and GitHub activity numbers.
Not everyone is a developer. Finding and fixing typos benefits everyone and allows nontechnical people to participate in the projects to improve the software they use, even if they can't contribute code.
Genuinely, I am trying to improve things. Making documentation more readable has a real cascading positive effect. Of course, most of these PRs are tiny — just a word or two — but that means it takes me almost no time to submit them, so the ROI is still positive.
One of the most enraging things to me is when a text search of documentation fails because the word I'm searching for has been misspelled in a key place. That's one of the things I'm trying to solve for.
I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!
Of course doing this does generate activity on my GH, but I think all of us have probably moved on from caring much about the optics of little green squares.
Also like someone else said, it's just fun. I like typing and making Git do a thing and using my nice keyboard.
I used to do this when I had more free time and I did it because I just enjoy doing it. When I write it down like this I realise it sounds kind of obvious, but here we are
Dilettante_|5 months ago
treesknees|5 months ago
basscomm|5 months ago
henrebotha|5 months ago
One of the most enraging things to me is when a text search of documentation fails because the word I'm searching for has been misspelled in a key place. That's one of the things I'm trying to solve for.
I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!
Of course doing this does generate activity on my GH, but I think all of us have probably moved on from caring much about the optics of little green squares.
Also like someone else said, it's just fun. I like typing and making Git do a thing and using my nice keyboard.
LandR|5 months ago
Didn't want to be seen as just padding my github.
krageon|5 months ago
cgh|5 months ago
jbd0|5 months ago
This used to mean something, but I don't think it does anymore.