Ask HN: How to get acquainted with an open source​ code base?

3 points by rs86 ↗ HN
I am a computer scientist with solid theory but not much practice. How could I for example contribute to Neovim?

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I started contributing to ckb-next[1] through simply hanging around the IRC channel, and absorbing the developers trying to explain and fix bugs, and asking questions about things I didn't understand, and relevant source code.

[1]http://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next