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

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Post by snthpy »

https://github.com/PRQL/prql

PRQL - the Pipelined Relational Query Language, pronounced "Prequel".

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. Like SQL, it's readable, explicit and declarative. Unlike SQL, it forms a logical pipeline of transformations, and supports abstractions such as variables and functions. It can be used with any database that uses SQL, since it compiles to SQL.

Lots of ideas for making PRQL the best language for working with and transforming data in any environment. As a completely community driven project with no corporate association or sponsor, velocity is limited by volunteer availability and contributions so help is welcome. From compiler work in Rust, to front-end improvements on the website, and CLIs, language integrations, alternative backends, etc ... in between.

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

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Post by mraza007 »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #58
whamlastxmas wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What sort of product management help do you need? Like managing the work of the developers or more wireframing and design?

All of the above: product roadmap, coordinating developers’ work, specs and designs, and anything else you can think of.

Would you be open to someone for those tasks?

I just checkout your project and it looks amazing. I’m not a Mobile Developer but I have definitely worked with Java especially with Springboot

Would love to get in touch with you

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

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Post by zaphodias »

snthpy wrote: post #91

https://github.com/PRQL/prql PRQL - the Pipelined Relational Query Language, pronounced "Prequel". PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. Like SQL, it's readable, explicit and declarative. Unlike SQL, it forms a logical pipeline of transformations, and supports abstractions such as variables and functions. It can be used with any database that uses SQL, since…

hey there, honestly I haven't tried prql yet but I think I already saw it on HN before.

What would you expect from a language integration? I'd like to work on something in Go, which doesn't make it easy to have Rust bindings.

One nice challenge for me would be to rewrite the compiler in pure Go, but maybe it's too complex of a task bringing little value to the project overall :)

What other tools do you need? E.g. what kind of CLIs? What do you mean by alternative backends?

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

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Post by tobylane »

CorsixTH - https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH

A modern platform's clone of the 1997 Bullfrog game Theme Hospital, where you manage a series of hospitals. CorsixTH is mostly feature complete, with additions like player made maps and levels, and some ease of use changes. The game logic and layout is in Lua, the backend is C++. We have some issues marked Good First Issue, and long term plans including multiplayer. The documentation and wiki are good, and there's a Matrix/Discord room. Also an Android port - https://github.com/alanwoolley/CorsixTH-Android

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

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Post by em-bee »

rty32 wrote: post #51
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…

Not 100% agree but would almost say the same thing. As someone who made small contributions to several projects and left comments under many GitHub issues, things that I see: * Heavy users are more likely to report bugs and end up contributing to the project * If many people run into the same issue, more likely someone will create among them will write a fix, or at least suggest a workaround * A "healthy" project --…

you can find people that expect certain amount of experience with a particular language

what then should they be doing different? to contribute code to a software project you need to know or learn the language the project is written in. there is no way around that.

does it bother you that they don't want patches created with chatGPT? did you miss the controversy around that? can you assert that the code you submit is really free of copyright claims?

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

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Post by andrea81 »

lytedev wrote: post #38
mcmcmc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some open source projects don't necessarily want help. I don't think adding a help-wanted tag qualifies for begging as much as letting you know that contributors are actually welcome if you're interested.

What a shame, one of the biggest companies of our time with tags looking for help. Sell it however you want, but the tag is there and this is a pitiful image.

I feel sorry for all the naive developers who will waste their time working for free for a parasitic corporation.

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

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Post by jlukecarlson »

ml-mdm from Apple Machine Learning Research

I maintain ml-mdm, a text-to-image diffusion codebase, that contains implementations of my research group’s recent papers https://github.com/apple/ml-mdm

Any help with DOCS or CODE would be greatly appreciated. I’m happy to have BEGINNER-FRIENDLY contributions as well, there’s a “good first issues” label that we use on GitHub.

We have an active and growing group of external contributors and welcome newcomers.

Could be a fun opportunity to contribute to a machine learning research project and to learn about cutting edge techniques in this subfield.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

Langroid: https://github.com/langroid/langroid

Langroid (2.7k stars, 20k downloads/mo) is an intuitive, lightweight, extensible and principled Python framework to easily build agent-oriented LLM-powered applications, from CMU and UW-Madison researchers. You set up Agents, equip them with optional components (LLM, vector-store and tools/functions), assign them tasks, and have them collaboratively solve a problem by exchanging messages. agent-oriented Python framework to simplify building LLM applications. It has been in development since Apr 2023, predating other Agent frameworks, and was built from the ground up to be agent-oriented (not as an after-thought) and does not depend on any other LLM library.

The framework is gaining popularity among developers due its clean, principled design.

I am the lead dev/architect.

Areas needing help: CODE, DOCS, DESIGN

Level: There are a number of areas (see the issues and contribution docs) where beginners or advanced developers can contribute.

Contact: Drop into the discord and post a message in a suitable channel, or create an Issue or Discussion in the GitHub repo.

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZU36McDgDs

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

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Post by akutlay »

memset wrote: post #29

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.

I'm interested in this but I see long lasting issues and very few PRs (last one from August 3rd). Is it because things are stable now or the project is not getting traction?
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