Re:Ask HN: What are good OSS projects for beginners/students...
by gus_massa on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:54PM
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My recommendation is to contribute to the projects they use.
* Did they found a bug? Can they fix it?
* What is a pain point? Can they add a feature to solve it?
* Do they need to use the project in another platform/configuration?
* Does the project have some easy bugs/issues that they can solve?
Always start with small changes, perhaps only 1 or 2 days of work (or less, sometimes 2 or 4 hours are enough). You are never sure that the owner/maintainer is going to merge it. Or if they have weird requirements. Or if they don't like the change (for good or bad reasons). Or if they have a better option in development. If you invest less than 2 days, it's not big deal if it isn't merged.
* Did they found a bug? Can they fix it?
* What is a pain point? Can they add a feature to solve it?
* Do they need to use the project in another platform/configuration?
* Does the project have some easy bugs/issues that they can solve?
Always start with small changes, perhaps only 1 or 2 days of work (or less, sometimes 2 or 4 hours are enough). You are never sure that the owner/maintainer is going to merge it. Or if they have weird requirements. Or if they don't like the change (for good or bad reasons). Or if they have a better option in development. If you invest less than 2 days, it's not big deal if it isn't merged.