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Re:Start your open-source career by UncleEntity on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:25PM (#15981417)
> Why? This answer is most common one and always puzzled me.

If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

I used to contribute to an OSS project and there were a lot of times where the devs and users had differing opinions on how a feature should work.

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Re:Start your open-source career by figgis on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:33PM (#15981487)
> If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

There are many (many) ways to contribute to a project that doesn't require you to be solving actual user problems.

I'd suggest just finding new projects, review code, create pull requests for those small mistakes you see. Provide feedback if applicable. Etc.

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Re:Start your open-source career by watwut on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:35PM (#15981507)
> If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

You can fix uncontroversial bug/feature request from issue tracker. Not everything us contested, most of it is not. Also, I would expect the project to welcome someone doing the work more then just another one that came to argue .

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