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   2 title: "I'm a Rust Contributor"
   3 date: 2016-09-20 America/Detroit
   4 tags:
   5 - rust
   6 - open source
   7 summary: "I got a PR merged into Rust, wow, that's pretty cool!"
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  10 A month or two ago I was on the #rust IRC when someone discovered that `pow()` didn't act quite right for unsigned numbers.
  11 This was a bug that was isolated to a single function, so it seemed like something that I could handle.
  12 The issue got posted, I claimed it and debugged it, and actually managed to fix it!
  13 It took a little while, but very early this morning PR #34942 [*Fix overflow checking in unsigned pow()*][issue34942] was merged.
  14 Now I'm a contributor to Rust!
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  16 [issue34942]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/34942#event-795131414
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  18 Try to find a small thing that you can fix in something that you use.
  19 Somewhere in there is the right issue that you can fix.
  20 It's a great experience.
  21 (I really look forward to the release notes for 1.12...)
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  23 **Update:**
  24 It turns out my fix made it into the 1.13 release, and my name is in the [contributors section in the release notes][contributors].
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  26 [contributors]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/11/10/Rust-1.13.html#contributors-to-1130