Rust is generally awesome.
Also check out Servo (an experimental web rendering engine written in Rust), which shares a lot of the Rust community, and is beginning to prove out some of its components for inclusion in Firefox.
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?
#72Wine.
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree 100%. The Rust community is excellent.
In my experience the Rust community exhibits a cloaked form of tyranny. On the surface they are very vocal about supporting 'inclusiveness' and 'non-discrimination' and 'tolerance'. Yet they use a rather harsh and subjective code of conduct to control and police the members of their community. Last I knew they even had a moderation team who doled out punishment without any due process nor any oversight of significanc…
The Rust community is firm about technical correctness, like any good systems programming project. And, like any good and ambitious systems programming project, technical correctness is nonobvious and no one person is going to be right about everything all the time, because there's entirely too much to know and too much to keep track of.
Unlike many systems programming projects out there, the Rust community has an aversion to screaming matches, personality cults, and other attempts to enforce technical correctness via dominance tactics (not only because they're awful, but also because they don't work - see the things Ulrich Drepper got wrong in glibc, and Linus Torvalds got wrong in Linux, because people could not tell them that they were wrong). Responses to technically incorrect claims are usually firm but gentle, technically straightforward and non-insulting. If someone persists in those claims, they will not find a constant willingness to argue.
It is entirely possible that you have seen observations that were not correct, valid, and legitimate, made by people who are expecting to be told they are wrong in the ways that the old glibc community or the Linux community would tell them that they are wrong, and never took a quiet and friendly correction seriously.
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#74Drupal'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…
Quite funny, but I had an experience with Ansible that's similar to the one the other commenter had with Drupal. I have a very trivial pull request[0] which I have been trying to get reviewed & merged since March. It's only around 20 lines of code, but I've been asked to rebase it due to merge conflicts multiple times. I did so, but nothing came out of it on either of those occasions.
[0]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/901
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#75I'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.
Hey nice, a new release, I was getting worried that the project was going down.
Nope, we're still active, but we're suffering from manpower shortage ;)
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#76Qt and Qt3D. I haven't contributed as much to Qt as I've wanted to, but the little I did was met with support and great mentoring. They are a very talented group.
If you're interested in physics, mathematics or other sciences, I'd recommend SciPy. I attended one of their conferences and met many really nice, kind and talented people. (Open Source conferences and meet-ups are a great way to get to know people and kick-starting contributions.)
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#77Jinteki.net: a platform to play Netrunner in the browser. We welcome contributors and have a Slack where devs can ask questions. Send me an email if you want an invite.
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#78The 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.
That sounds nice, but in practice it is likely to be an exercise in futility and frustration.
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#79Wine's an amazing open source project, a compatibility layer project for running windows applications on POSIX-compliant OS's (OSX, Linux, BSD etc) started 22 years ago and still going strong. The devs are super talented and contributions are always welcome.
I've been contributing there and my so far my personal experience has been positive, fun and challenging at the same time :D
There's literally a ton of different things that you can contribute on and while there is some initial friction in getting patches accepted, they always make sure to point you towards the right direction to get your patch accepted. They also hold annual conferences (wineconf).
Check out their website for more info http://winehq.org/
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#80More important to me--Which companies have kind, supportive, talented teams?
This might be interesting as a similar "Ask HN" of its own.