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Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by grothoff »

medo-bear wrote: post #17
grothoff wrote: post #13

GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into other applications) documentation (review, proof-reading), testing (incl. benchmark, UX), packaging, translation (Weblate/gettext); any help welcome ;-).

Taler seems cool,but this is a huge no no: Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!

We do need to expire cryptographic keys eventually, there is no sane alternative to this. Now, note that "regularly online" here could mean once every X years depending on how the system is configured.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

laurex wrote: post #15

I love this idea, thanks for putting this together. I'm biased, but I also wish more FOSS/OSS projects had a realistic contributor path for UX folks to contribute- so many (non-dev-tooling) projects suffer as a result of building without collaboration from people who might use the product.

I should have included that in my list of asks for OneBusAway. We have a ton of need for people in every user experience, discipline: visual design, usability, you name it. Also, product management would be a huge help.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by nimishk »

Phase - Open source application secrets management platform for developers

What we are building and how it works (TL;DR): - CLI that replaces .env files by imports secrets, encrypting and syncing them to the backend. The CLI injects secrets into any application at runtime as environment variables. - A frontend web app to CRUD key, value pairs across dev, staging, prod envs. Add teammates. View logs. - An backend API to store secrets data. Sync them to common platforms like GitHub, Kubernetes, AWS etc.

Tech stack: - Next.js frontend - Python / Django backend (django-rq, django REST, graphene graphql) - Postgresql - Redis

Repos: - https://github.com/phasehq/console - https://github.com/phasehq/cli - https://github.com/phasehq/docs - https://github.com/phasehq/python-sdk - https://github.com/phasehq/golang-sdk - https://github.com/phasehq/kubernetes-secrets-operator - https://github.com/phasehq/terraform-provider-phase

DM me on Slack: https://slack.phase.dev or X: https://x.com/nimishkarmali

Help needed: Contributors are welcome to try the platform and improve it by creating or picking up GitHub issues on any of the above repos, adding new integrations, features, and docs!

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by rwmj »

craftyjon wrote: post #20

KiCad EDA - https://kicad.org KiCad is a popular open-source EDA tool used by engineers and designers across the globe. We're always open to contributions from experienced C++ developers, especially those who are also familiar with the world of electrical engineering / PCB design. Check out our developer landing page[1] to find the developers email list and contribution guides. We accept merge requests on GitLab[2] a…

I think if one did curate such a list, then importance (both number of users, and societal impact) should be a key factor. KiCad is an important project on both dimensions.

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Post by [deleted] »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #16

I'm skeptical that this does anything. I'd wager that just about nobody is sitting around with all this energy waiting to contribute to a project they've never used and just heard about in an HN thread. I'm sure you get some commitments of people who say they will help. Just like people say they'll pay for your product once you build it and people who say they'll go to an event 6 months from now. It's hard enough to…

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Post by mcmcmc »

samatman wrote: post #10
m4rcs90 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny that all Microsoft projects appear on top. They seem to struggle very hard.

The list is ranked in a completely transparent way. It's anything with the help wanted tag, ordered by number of stars. So this isn't some sneaky Microsoft thumb on the scale, the way you appear to be implying. Simpler than that: I doubt many projects know about this list (I for one just saw it for the first time), and since GitHub put it together, Microsoft codebases got the memo to add the tag. If you want to see o…

Personally I find it funny one of the most valuable companies in the world is begging for free help maintaining their software. Gotta be cheap to get rich I guess.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by memset »

SmoothMQ: a drop-in replacement for SQS. https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq

I am looking to build 4 main things:

1. Better compatibility with SQS' different endpoints 2. Sharding: I want users to be able to add/remove a node to a cluster and have the system automatically rebalance 3. Replication

The project is written in Go, and the UI is also just uses HTML and go templates.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by pizlonator »

Fil-C - a memory safe implementation of C and C++.

Written in C and C++.

Need most help just porting C programs to Fil-C. Often porting is as easy as recompiling, but sometimes there are compatibility issues to resolve similar to if you were porting C code to a new CPU or OS. Could also use help with compiler hacking (llvm expertise required) and runtime hacking (experience with high level language runtimes required).

https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge

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