Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by pyre on Thursday February 05, 2015 @11:43AM (#9004168)

> I've ended up digging through lists of tough bugs each with fairly impressive sounding discussions by people who are way more familiar with the whole ecosystem than I am and it's sort of intimidating.

Sometimes it's small things, like documentation. For example:

http://bugs.python.org/issue17701

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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by shackenberg on Thursday February 05, 2015 @12:31PM (#9004526)

Good point, but you have to admit that the site does not look inviting at all and that a novice has no idea where to start.

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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by bloodorange on Thursday February 05, 2015 @03:49PM (#9005969)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/

Mozilla is quite friendly and makes it easy to contribute. I've had quite a pleasant experience whenever I tried to make a contribution.

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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by zanny on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:53PM (#9006396)

KDE actually marks easy jobs as junior jobs for new contributors:

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_...

And their bug tracker is fairly pretty too.

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