My Open Source Journey at GitLab
My journey with GitLab began in early 2021. As a software engineer passionate about coding and community collaboration, I was always fascinated by the impact of open-source projects. The idea that my contributions could help shape tools used by thousands of developers around the world was both exciting and humbling.
Back then I was in my junior year of university pursuing computer science engineering and decided to learn Ruby after trying countless technological stacks.
As I was learning Ruby on Rails, I thought the best way to learn was by working on open-source projects. GitLab is built using Rails, so I decided to start contributing to GitLab.
My first Merge Request was merged on February 4, 2021, and you'll see how I struggled to make the simple changes. This is completely normal. As you make more and more contributions, you will start to get comfortable with the codebase and the best coding practices.
We at GitLab believe that all digital products should be open to contributions; from legal documents to movie scripts, and from websites to chip designs.
