Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
by lawlessone on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:35PM
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sorry if it's wrong to ask here, I've never joined an OSS project but kinda want to are there many out there that could use the help?
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Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
by sky2224 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:58PM
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https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
This is a repo of good beginner OSS projects to contribute to
Look up the bug tracker of any library you like. If your pull request gets merged you've joined.
Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
by guappa on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:56AM
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That is quite bad advice!
Most projects have some contributing.md file or something similar with their specific guidelines. One should really start from there.
Also a fire and forget merge request is probably the least welcome way to contribute to something.
Always fine to ask that question anywhere, in my opinion!
Good to note: contributing to code projects also occurs in closed source, big orgs. The same tools are used. My cases for example are from government and our projects usually aren't open source.