Ask HN: What is your best advice to devs who want to contribute to open source?

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Post by overcode » Thu, May 02, 2019, 4:53 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What is your best advice to devs who want to contribute to open source?

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Post by jppope » Thu, May 02, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Work on the non-sexy things first. Documentation, testing, promotion. These are the things that projects need the most to be successful.

Re: Ask HN: What is your best advice to devs who want to contribute to open source?

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Post by avichalp » Fri, May 03, 2019, 7:14 AM UTC

Talk to maintainers. Approach them on email/twitter/project specific communities. Tell them you want to contribute and how you can be helpful. Most maintainers are looking for help. They will be happy to mentor you.

Re: Ask HN: What is your best advice to devs who want to contribute to open source?

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Post by overcode » Fri, May 03, 2019, 8:17 AM UTC

avichalp wrote: post #3

Talk to maintainers. Approach them on email/twitter/project specific communities. Tell them you want to contribute and how you can be helpful. Most maintainers are looking for help. They will be happy to mentor you.

Thanks. Getting started is a hurdle - I often look at an interesting project on github and find it difficult to identify what can be improved.