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Ask HN: What are some open source projects that a beginner can work on?
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#82https://github.com/kevinohashi/php-riot-api
Like League of Legends? Enjoy PHP enough to contribute? Right now it's a very simple wrapper, there's few outstanding issues. It could use better documentation, examples, a global rate limiting queue and more functionality could be added. It's mainly just me maintaining it, I get a few contributions here and there. I'd love more developers who are interested in building LoL sites to use and help extend/maintain it.
Re: Ask HN: What are some open source projects that a beginner can work on?
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is a bit of a non issue. Wouldn't a bad community or developer become evident when you started looking around at how to help and contribute to the project? Just recently I decided I was bored with my routine at home and wanted to challenge myself. So I set a task: pick a public repo that I don't already maintain (preferably that I use), find a bug I would like to see fixed (emphasis on would like to see…
When you are just starting out, you don't know what is normal and you can't tell whether the project is poorly run or whether you are just bad at programming and should give up.
I think if you don't know what's normal yet, set the bar.
What I mean is, when you're trying to contribute, how do your interactions with that project and the developer(s) make you feel? At the end of the day, if you're not enjoying yourself and what you're doing, drop the project and find something you enjoy. Might be a different more-receptive project, but it might be a different hobby too, I would encourage you to try multiple project before giving up though.
Re: Ask HN: What are some open source projects that a beginner can work on?
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you are just starting out, you don't know what is normal and you can't tell whether the project is poorly run or whether you are just bad at programming and should give up.
I think if you don't know what's normal yet, set the bar. What I mean is, when you're trying to contribute, how do your interactions with that project and the developer(s) make you feel? At the end of the day, if you're not enjoying yourself and what you're doing, drop the project and find something you enjoy. Might be a different more-receptive project, but it might be a different hobby too, I would encourage you to…
> "if you don't know what is normal yet, set the bar"
What do you actually mean by this? I'm pretty sure I'm misreading you here.
What I'm reading is "when you come into a new organization and you see people doing things that make you feel bad, force them to change their culture." However, arguing against that feels like arguing against a strawman because it seems obvious to me that you can't effectively change an organization as a random novice and that trying to do so is going to make people really dislike you. Even if it would happen to work, doing it requires being the sort of person thats willing to be called an asshole.
Re: Ask HN: What are some open source projects that a beginner can work on?
#85hedgewars.org
So many years of fun from this game.