Question

A developer at your company wants to contribute a bug fix to a popular open-source library hosted on GitHub. They do not have write access to the project's repository, but they want to make their changes and eventually propose them back to the maintainers. What is the most appropriate way for them to begin?

Accepted Answer

Create a fork of the library's repository under their own account, make the fix, and open a pull request back to the original repository

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Generate a new repository from the library using it as a template, then commit the fix there

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Star the library's repository so the maintainers are notified of their intended change

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Ask the maintainers to add them as an organization owner so they can push directly