Find your interest and expand on it

In the first section of this chapter, Contributing to open source projects, we looked at a bunch of ideas about how and why you could, or should, contribute to an open source project. At this point, I'd like to provide just a bit of friendly advice about finding a good place to start if you want to contribute to the Arrow project specifically. Yes, there's the obvious case of looking at the implementation in your preferred programming language. But most of the code bases are still quite large, even when limited to only looking at code relevant to one language. My first piece of advice is to figure out what you are interested in. I've put a small flowchart together in Figure 10.6 to help with some ideas:

Figure 10.6 – A flowchart of ideas

Of course, it doesn't cover everything. It's not supposed to. The Arrow libraries house many different ideas and different ways of doing things. If you&apos...