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authorXavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>2017-12-17 14:14:40 +0100
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emphasize working on existing issues/patches for newcomers [ci skip]
Thanks to @Datasnuten for the suggestion.
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Helping to Resolve Existing Issues
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-As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the [issues list](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues) in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually:
+As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing ones by providing feedback about them. If you are new to Rails core development, that might be a great way to walk your first steps, you'll get familiar with the code base and the processes.
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+If you check the [issues list](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues) in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually:
### Verifying Bug Reports