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I just submitted my first pull request to an open source project

It's not code. It's for a typo in their documentation.

They had a title that said Funtions, help and contributing instead of Functions, help and contributing. I added an entire freaking letter to their code base.

Still waiting on acceptance. It's been fifteen whole minutes.

Sustainable Transport Planning with R

Pull request link (I hope)

I'm aware YOU don't care. It's a big damn deal to me and I want to say it somewhere, so I chose one my very low traffic blogs that no one reads instead of, say, announcing it in comments on HN or something like that.

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