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Re:Ask YC: Getting involved in open source projects by thomasswift on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @11:13PM (#130298)
close bugs on a project thats already out there, create a new feature on one, or start your own.
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Re:Ask YC: Getting involved in open source projects by omouse on Thursday March 06, 2008 @02:25AM (#130411)
Write or edit documentation. A lot of open source projects need help in that department.
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Re:Ask YC: Getting involved in open source projects by pc on Thursday March 06, 2008 @11:56AM (#130637)
That technically does satisfy the goal of "contributing", but it's also a boring, menial job. (Which is why volunteer-driven projects have poor documentation in the first place.)

I don't know of any open-source developer who got started writing docs.

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