Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by tree666 » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

Curious about projects where a volunteer doc writer could make some impact.

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by kayson » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC

Yes! I recently started maintaining https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny a self-hosted service for collecting and monitoring hard drive SMART data. Right now the docs are just a somewhat organized collection of markdown files in the repo. It would be great to have something more polished, rendered by GitHub pages, etc, but I have been prioritizing bug fixes and don't have the bandwidth (or expertise really) to improve the docs.

The latest release has ~500k downloads so it's a popular project and your contribution would be a pretty significant impact.

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by michaelmure » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug if that's your thing.

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by ArekDymalski » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC

Perhaps one of the pages gathering projects that need help will be inspiring for you, i.e.: https://up-for-grabs.net/#/filters?date=6months&labels=&tags... or https://www.codetriage.com/ ?

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by xipho » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

Come spend some time with the TaxonWorks community, docs can always use love. https://taxonworks.org.

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by gerdesj » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

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Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by a-fadil » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

If you’re interested in finance and investment tracking https://github.com/afadil/wealthfolio

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by grothoff » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

https://taler.net/ would be happy to get help.

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by kevinjahns » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:06 AM UTC

docs.yjs.dev

I'm currently working on a major rewrite and it would be great to start off with great documentation!

It might be interesting to explain new concepts in the field of collaborative editing (e.g. how to attribute content).

Feel free to pm me at: hi@kevinjahns.de

Re: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

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Post by techsystems » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

Just out of curiosity, what would be the difference between what you write and what AI writes?