There are good chances that most of the third party code you interact with on a daily basis is Open Source. If you are lucky it’s also maintained. You may also have contributed to some Open Source projects or at least you tried: by the number of stale pull requests on Open Source repositories I guess it’s not a happy experience for a lot of people.

Hopefully we can save some needless pain to some of you!

Let’s go through a list of mistakes you can avoid to make Open Source maintainers life easier and your experience in contributing code to Open Source software more pleasant. One day you may be on the other side.