Contributing to Open Source Milvus: A Beginner’s Guide

Open source software (OSS) relies on community contributions from developers, testers, writers, and designers to improve projects. The core team of maintainers or lead developers manage the project's direction, review contributions, ensure code quality, and make key decisions. Contributions are reviewed through issue tracking, pull requests, code reviews, feedback iterations, and automated testing before being merged into the main branch for release. To submit a pull request to an open source repository on GitHub, developers should fork the repository, clone it locally, create a new branch, make changes, commit them, push the changes to their fork, and finally create a pull request with a clear title and description. The maintainers will review the contribution and may ask for revisions or suggest improvements before merging it into the original project's codebase.