# Did Julia community do something to improve its correctness?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 5, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/did-julia-community-do-something-to-improve-its-correctness/102515 "2023-08-05T07:16:42Z")\
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> [@tim.holy](#):
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> … while we do occasionally beg for contributions, you shouldn’t need us to do that in order to realize you can help.

It didn’t cross my mind to link the _begging for contributions_ to being able to assess that _I can help_.

I am not sure to what extent others feel the same, but when it comes to evaluating _what one can do_, I am pretty confident when doing that evaluation for the projects I am working on as opposed to contributing to Julia-repo.

I know that there is always the _make a PR, and let us tell you if it is garbage_ solution - but that feels more like _fighting my way in_ approach. The same “_…we’re volunteers too_” applies here - and both the following were valid for a while now:

- I really love Julia and I want it to thrive
- I have (can make) time to contribute

In fact, I wanted to contribute in some way and [after this topic cooled down](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-kind-of-two-language-problem-in-julia-ecosystem/100445) I started to be more active here, on discourse.

I know that general true statements about what contributing to open-source projects means can be invoked and applied to Julia (and it is not like I am ignorant about those _rules_): however, I think we can at least entertain the idea that in a less technical way than, now mitigated, TTFX, Julia might have a time-to-first-PR issue (and is less relevant that other open-source projects might have this issue as well).

It was a clear TTFPR issue when [I reported the following bug after I actually delved into Julia’s source code, detected the exact issue, and proposed the fix](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/50646).

So why didn’t I PR the thing and only open an issue? Good question: I cannot pinpoint a single reason.

Maybe it was about a mix of various factors. But my honest answer is that I wanted to contribute, I had the time (and actually I had the local fix because the bug was really annoying) and still no PR.

If my case is singular and this _I want + I can + I don’t_ mix is not a real issue that goes past my sole experience, then I think we can just let this go: I learned my lesson.

However, if there are things that can be done in the Julia community to reduce yet another _TTF- something_, then let’s use this opportunity and maybe lower the _perceived_ bar for Julia-repo contributions.

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