need help with my first issue!

[BerreNeyrinck]

Hi! I'm a student who thought himself how to use git (so you can imagine the amount of stuff I'm struggling with trying to navigate this).
I've never opened/worked on an issue, ever, but really wanted to start on one so I thought "hey, why not pick up an open issue and see if I can help out :)"

so I took #5572 as a first try! I found the 5.0.0-beta.4 source code and started working.

Now I made a solution that implements a fix but I have 0 clue how to make it into a PR / put it up for review.
Looking at a bunch of closed issues gave me some idea of how to write out the proposed fix but that's about it.

anyone that can help me out? :) thx in advance (and sorry if this is a bit of a confusing message)!

[knolleary]

Hi @BerreNeyrinck,

Here's a general guide for how to create a pull request - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKdihvneS0

In short, these are the steps. This isn't a complete guide, but hopefully gives you the high-level steps which helps point you in the right direction

1. You create a fork of the Node-RED repository
2. As this is Node-RED 5, switch to the dev branch (the default master branch contains the current stable Node-RED 4.x code)
3. Make your changes, commit and push.
4. Then switch to the Pull Requests tab and create the Pull Request - the video above should help with that stage.