The Perl 6 development team is generally good-natured and work to be pleasant to each other and newcomers. http://perl6.org/
Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
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Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#32PostgreSQL (I've always been hugely impressed by the team, though not myself a contributor).
Ditto. The community seems to have a remarkable ability to take the high road.
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#33I'm the lead for LXQt, the Qt-based desktop environment: http://lxqt.org/
I'm very happy to say that everyone on our team is kind and supportive. I'm also happy to say this is not a unique trait of our team, it's something you'll see in a lot of open source projects.
Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile) if you're interested in LXQt.
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#34https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Great community, has a very friendly Gitter chat room where people collaborate, very nice maintainer as well.
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#35Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#36The open source project that needs you are the very ones that are unkind, not supportive with less talented teams.
Someone needs to join them and lead, to show kindness, to teach how to be supportive of newbies, and to bring talent.
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#37I think it depends on you background, I'm trying to support this project: https://github.com/franzejr/best-ruby
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#38Drupal's community is what got me into OSS, even though the language (PHP) community seems to be at a strange crossroads currently. I've also been somewhat involved in Ansible's community, and it's been nothing but a positive experience so far. It's interesting to compare some of the different communities; some seem to value technical competence over diversity, some UX over architecture, etc. It's probably easiest to…
As a counter-point: I've found it impossible to penetrate the Drupal community. I have filed several tickets over the years, including patches, which have often gone entirely without comment for sometimes months. Including a bug report and patch against a core include file. IRC is sometimes helpful, but usually not. In my experience, it's just really hard to get any questions answered or bugs fixed in Drupal.
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#39The Perl 6 development team is generally good-natured and work to be pleasant to each other and newcomers. http://perl6.org/
The Perl community, in general, has always been extremely friendly and welcoming. That seems to carry over to Perl 6. I can't think of any time I was unable to get guidance quickly via a variety of channels; Perl Monks, IRC, etc. are good places to go. Filing issues about CPAN modules can be a somewhat less satisfying thing (depends very much on the author), but usually also results in something good happening.
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#40From my (limited) experience, I've been impressed wherever I interacted with developers of: python-requests, salt, rust.