first, that’s great :)
second, when I started contributing to OSS projects, I found these places helpful:
- https://github.com/sereneblue/awesome-oss
- https://hot.opensauced.pizza/
hope it helps
Ask HN: Where to Start Contributing OSS?
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Re: Ask HN: Where to Start Contributing OSS?
#12My first OSS project contributions went like this:
* Start using some software that I liked
* Read the documentation and notice poor grammar, punctuation, typos etc.
* submit PR for documentation (man pages, comment lines etc.)
* get PR merged and introduced to the dev team.
* submit more small PRs that are code based (expand existing classes, add minor features) etc.
* the maintainers will generally give feedback that your code doesn't fit into style guides, linters, case conventions etc. So patch it up and get it merged.
* Now you can pretty much do whatever. Test the code on Arm64. Add new OSes to their build pipeline.
My advice: Start small. Actually talk to the maintainers.
Re: Ask HN: Where to Start Contributing OSS?
#13I feel probably similar to OP. If I were asking this question, I wouldn't be asking for specific OSS projects to contribute to for value, I would be looking for OSS projects to contribute to for initiation into a community or OSS projects which are very good at on-boarding new contributors. I guess the question I would be asking is: Which OSS projects having welcoming communities? or Which OSS projects are easy to co…
Yeah, that would have been more likely :)
Re: Ask HN: Where to Start Contributing OSS?
#14Python and JavaScript you say? Would you be interested in contributing to PyVibe? https://github.com/pycob/pyvibe/blob/main/src/pyvibe/__init_... https://github.com/pycob/pyvibe
Thanks a lot!
Re: Ask HN: Where to Start Contributing OSS?
#15I would find a project you are interested in. If you lack specific interests than I would go work on Haiku.
Why do you say so? Maybe I didn't find the right link, but it doesn't seem to be a project to actively contribute to