So for my first actual bugfix in the FOSS community I wasn't sure what to do. There wasn't a whole lot of time to hunt down any new bugs in any big projects I was familiar with like CyanogenMod or Firefox (though I would have liked to) and any existing bugs that I found were WAY out of scope for the time frame. The bigger the project the more code to wade through and there was simply no way I could even get through the Firefox Gecko source code in a few days. So I settled with a cool little project I found on reddit called Cool Retro Term.
Initially I tried to tackle a bug with the Bloom not scaling properly when you edited the settings. However despite the project being in QT5 which I am familiar with, the project is written in QML which I am not well versed in. So instead I opted to do a more trivial task. The README that was on the project had some screenshots that were pretty out of date and so I took some new ones and opened a pull request. Later that day the author responded and nicely asked for some changes before my pull got accepted. I made the changes and I'm still waiting on a response, hopefully the pull will be accepted but we'll see.
The conversation and pull request can be seen here
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