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A starter project that grows with you

Your first open-source contributions, in a codebase built for them.

Nest is a real, maintained open-source project. Every new Kestrel contributor gets a page here that they build themselves, pull request by pull request, and that keeps growing with every verified contribution they make anywhere.

Start with Stage 1 See the page template
0contributor pages 1cohort v0.1.0latest release
contributors/your-login/profile.yml
handle: your-login
name: Your Name
cohort: 2027-01
skills_developing:
- debugging
- reading unfamiliar code
visibility:
page: public
✓ validate✓ buildpreview deployed

The ladder · an invitation, not a gate

Seven stages, from first clone to your own proposal.

  1. Stage 1
    Make it run
    Clone, test, first PR
  2. Stage 2
    Your page exists
    Profile, preview, live
  3. Stage 3
    Fix your defect
    Reproduce, hypothesise, fix
  4. Stage 4
    Write the test
    Fails before, passes after
  5. Stage 5 · Skip in
    Ship to shared code
    Real issue, real review
  6. Stage 6
    Review a peer
    Both sides of review
  7. Stage 7
    Propose something
    Then: any repo you like

Experienced already? Skip to Stage 5 or straight to the Kestrel board. Nothing here is required for anything else.

Pages

Built by the people on them.

All cohorts
The first pages are being built right now.
Pages appear here when their owners publish them. The project is open to clone now.

A real project

CI on every PR, previews, CODEOWNERS, ADRs, a public roadmap and quarterly releases. The same workflow you will meet everywhere else.

Evidence, labelled honestly

Pages separate practice in your own directory, contributions to Nest's shared code, and work accepted by other projects. Nothing is dressed up as more than it is.

Yours, for good

Publish what you choose, edit forever, unpublish with one PR. Your page keeps growing after onboarding ends, from verified work, wherever you do it.