The first experience always matters, open source contributions are no different! People with a good experience will more likely to stay in the community and open source ecosystem, and help others participate. Those with a bad first try might never come back, or will stay away for months or years before trying again.

In this snippet of the My Open Source Experience Podcast, Clare Dillon and Ildiko talk about their first upstream contribution experience. They highlight how intimidating it can be to upload a change for review, and how much it helped them to have established contributors from the community guiding them through the process as mentors.