Djangonaut Log 2: Leaving the atmosphere and first merged contributions

This blog post is a weekly update of my journey in Djangonaut Space , an 8-week mentoring program for future open source developers in the Django ecosystem. Series: 3… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space Debugging a flaky test — how I methodologically tamed an annoying bug Assumptions are sneaky Djangonaut Log 2: Leaving the atmosphere and first merged contributions (you are here) Last week, I started making my first contributions and first two of them got merged in on Wednesday. We had a bit of outdated versions for Python and libraries in the codebase which had broken the development environment setup and pull request pipeline in GitHub so a lot of this second week was focused on discussions and contributions to fix them. I had a couple of really good discussions with people in our team that helped me confirm my ideas of focusing on help bring the system to a working status before focusing deeply on other fixes. A peek behind the…