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lesson // lightning

Contribution Discovery

Find beginner-friendly issues across LND, CLN, and LDK repositories.

intermediate5 days

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Learning objectives

  • Map Lightning implementation repos and adjacent tools
  • Select an issue matching your language skills
  • Engage maintainers with a clear plan

study // plan

Lessons are primers. Depth comes from required reading, interactive labs, reflection, and a hands-on check with evidence — the BOSS study pattern.

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Reflection prompts

  1. Explain Contribution Discovery to a teammate without jargon — what problem does it solve?
  2. What would break in production if you misunderstood Contribution Discovery?
  3. Which BOLT (or implementation doc) is the source of truth for this topic, and what did you verify there?

Lab // Contribution artifact

Produce a contribution artifact for Contribution Discovery: issue shortlist, review notes, or PR draft that a maintainer could act on.

evidence required

  • ·Issue URL(s) or PR URL
  • ·Written approach / review checklist
  • ·Self-score against the meaningful-PR rubric

Lightning OSS spans Go, C, Rust, and many app repos. Pick a lane that matches your stack.

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Match language skills to repos, then scope an issue.

Docs & examples

Improving docs or sample apps is a high-leverage first PR.

Next steps

Ship your first Lightning PR with tests.

further reading

  • docslightningnetwork/lnd
  • docsElementsProject/lightning
  • docslightningdevkit

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