Skills Upgrade #8 Talking Drupal

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 8.
Topics Review Chad's questions
What is the process of creating a new issue, reviewing automated tests, and creating a merge request for review by the project maintainer?
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-gitlab-to-contribute-to-drupal https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-gitlab-to-contribute-to-drupal/creating-issue-forks My example issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/smart_date/issues/3432819 My example merge request: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/smart_date/-/merge_requests/94 If we're not using Composer to pull the contrib module, how do we make sure that all dependencies are handled?
How can someone navigate so many complex issues without getting lost or "barking up the wrong tree"?
Tasks for the upcoming week
Work toward getting the merge request accepted. Document learning bullet points for this journey. Resources Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal
Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes
The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/
Hosts AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick
Guests Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest
Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike