Re:Ask HN: How to start contributing to open source projects?
by moviuro on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:49AM
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Either:
- try to discuss issues on the bug trackers (or IRC), propose a solution, then send a patch/PR.
- find an itch on the project and scratch it. I did that for grml-etc-core [0], and helped port some advanced functionality to *BSD because I found it cool, but it only worked well enough on Linux. I also add some specific info in documentation when needed [1]
Don't work alone on a task before pushing a patch to the devs, make sure someone's aware of your work.
- try to discuss issues on the bug trackers (or IRC), propose a solution, then send a patch/PR.
- find an itch on the project and scratch it. I did that for grml-etc-core [0], and helped port some advanced functionality to *BSD because I found it cool, but it only worked well enough on Linux. I also add some specific info in documentation when needed [1]
Don't work alone on a task before pushing a patch to the devs, make sure someone's aware of your work.
[0] https://github.com/grml/grml-etc-core/commits?author=moviuro
[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/commit/c40a80a236...