Oh man make a decent *BSD installer/configuration manager. I know there are current attempts at this but they all need help. I think FreeBSD would especially benefit from some direct improvement.
Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
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Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#22My home-hosted Cloud platform is in dire need of UI attention... https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2 I am admittedly more of a logical, back-end programmer. Any help, advice, or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Do you use it yourself? Like how mature is it.
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#23- Git's default graphical user interface, "git gui". It's awful. There's no sense of what's important and what's safe. It's just the git command line hammered into a Tk-type interface.
Excellent suggestion and high visibility, but probably not a small task.
I think that could be a somewhat smaller task. Developers will have direct domain knowledge and the core features are fleshed out.
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#24Can you help the https://calibre-ebook.com/ project?
(I'm not a maintainer, but their UI/UX really would benefit from you)
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#25The KeePass project ( https://keepass.info/ ) would be a good one to contribute to. Their website and the actual app itself could use some modernization.
This one is possible, but might be difficult. It's currently a single developer who approves all code additions with no version control to sync things up. i.e. You have to manually maintain your own fork of the codebase
That's a shame if it's true. It's a project that could make a huge difference to people - both technical and non-technical.
I thought they were hosted on SourceForge and thus take patches but it's not clear from their website what the process is for contributing (proof that the website could use updating).
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#26My home-hosted Cloud platform is in dire need of UI attention... https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2 I am admittedly more of a logical, back-end programmer. Any help, advice, or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Do you use it yourself? Like how mature is it.
I do use it myself. The project was started in July of 2016 and was added to Github in August of 2016. I've been adding to it several times per week on average ever since.
I try to come up with ways to accomplish anything I would want a 3rd party service for from my home servers.
The API's are set and shouldn't be changing anytime soon. The overall structure of the application is set, but the current UI is modular and easily replaced. Now I'm mostly working on feature additions and fixing bugs.
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#27The KeePass project ( https://keepass.info/ ) would be a good one to contribute to. Their website and the actual app itself could use some modernization.
This one is possible, but might be difficult. It's currently a single developer who approves all code additions with no version control to sync things up. i.e. You have to manually maintain your own fork of the codebase
KeepassX.org then? (Completely different project team & codebase IIRC)
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#28could use some love.
http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/?from=duckie.tv&/
Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help
#29Please consider https://conversations.im/
You might also want to help with F-Droid.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one is possible, but might be difficult. It's currently a single developer who approves all code additions with no version control to sync things up. i.e. You have to manually maintain your own fork of the codebase
That's a shame if it's true. It's a project that could make a huge difference to people - both technical and non-technical. I thought they were hosted on SourceForge and thus take patches but it's not clear from their website what the process is for contributing (proof that the website could use updating).
They are hosted on SourceForge, and you can access all the code, but basically anytime there is an update you have to download the newest version from SourceForge and reconcile with your private fork manually.