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Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors

245 points by tilt 11y ago

sbruchmann 11y ago
Somewhat related: https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
jkot 11y ago
This is excellent, I will add my project soon. Just a small idea: add section with projects which offer rewards for contributors. That should cover: * users who will pay for bugfixing * some sort of small rewards such as bug contests * scholarship (Google Summer of Code | etc...) * non financial rewards such as conference passes
- irremediable 11y ago
  I like the idea of that, but will many places offer rewards for bugs that are on the easy end like the ones this site catalogues?
- metasean 11y ago
  FYI: https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ It would be interesting to see some type of collaboration between similar sites, including: - http://24pullrequests.com/ http://24pullrequests.com/ - https://www.codemontage.com/ https://www.codemontage.com/ - http://www.codetriage.com/ http://www.codetriage.com/ - http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/ http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/ - https://bountify.co/ https://bountify.co/ - https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ - http://yourfirstpr.github.io/ http://yourfirstpr.github.io/ - http://socialcoder.org/ http://socialcoder.org/
TerryADavis 11y ago
When I was an intern, more or less, God how awful I was, LOL. I would curse my worst enemy with as many amateur helpers as I could find. I am in charge of the 100,000 lines of code, myself. It is managable by one person.
chris_wot 11y ago
Worthwhile noting that LibreOffice have been doing this for some time now. See: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
- Fogest 11y ago
  The table that is supposed to list some "random easy hacks" looks to be empty.
vdnkh 11y ago
I was just about to start a project for this! How did you handle Git's API rate limiting? I was going to be lazy and update my listings every minute with a node scheduler.
- jongalloway2 11y ago
  They're doing client-side requests and caching pretty heavily in local storage: https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pages/javascripts/main.js#L79 https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pag...
  - shiftkey 11y ago
    And I'd love to move this out to something more flexible (and powerful) - see the demo https://github.com/shiftkey/up-for-grabs-api-demo https://github.com/shiftkey/up-for-grabs-api-demo
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simik 11y ago
Some sort of subscription (a daily digest?) for new tasks in a category would be nice.
- Fogest 11y ago
  I second this, however I'd be looking more for a weekly digest, so having some option would be nice.
ishfuseini 11y ago
If I've never contributed before, How should I go about finding issues I can help with? It would be cool if there was a filter for difficulty.
- southhare 11y ago
  I hadn't contributed until I found this site a month ago. I looked around in a language I was most comfortable in and then checked out some of the projects. Most of the projects on the list had tags for easy or bite-sized on their issue list.
  - ishfuseini 11y ago
    I've been teaching myself python for a while now but wasn't sure where to go once I was done with tutorials. Hoping to use this to develop some C# skills as well.
- noxToken 11y ago
  There are filters. They just aren't listed. I clicked the JS tab to view some issues, and in the left-hand column, I've seen 'newbie-friendly', 'beginner-friendly', and 'easy'.
  - ishfuseini 11y ago
    Awesome. Thank you!
- victorantos 11y ago
  you could start by checking the issues section Github page, one example for AngJobs https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs/issues https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs/issues
unknownzero 11y ago
I really like the idea here. Interesting how many of the projects are in .net, I wonder if that's just the authors language or if there really are a disproportionately higher number of .net projects well organized for accepting new contributors.
- shiftkey 11y ago
  This is likely a historical thing (the curators have a background in .NET and web development, and have lots of contacts in the .NET OSS space) but not something we want to limit ourselves too.
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    I think working with the sites listed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837009 or even GitHub itself could help expand this idea out even further. I really wanted openhatch to take off, but it seems it never did.
imglorp 11y ago
I'm curious about the language culture represented. Of the top three TIOBE languages, there are only 6 projects for C and C++, and none at all for Java. The site seems oriented towards web and windows.
gedrap 11y ago
On a related note, Bugs Ahoy is a similar project for filtering issues in Mozilla projects: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ there's 'Simple bugs' facet at the very bottom. E.g. simple and unassigned bugs http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?unowned=1&simple=1 http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?unowned=1&simple=1
quadrangle 11y ago
Also in this space: https://openhatch.org/ https://openhatch.org/
Niksko 11y ago
This is essentially exactly what I've been wanting. I really want to start doing some real world work on open source projects, because I feel they'll be great experience. However the projects I'd love to work on (TOR among others) are just so dense and impenetrable that I don't even know how to figure out how to get started. This will be really valuable, thanks.
ondrae 11y ago
Great! We made a similar service for civic tech projects, pulling from a long list of volunteer groups and non-profits. It only shows the "help wanted" labels. http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues

245 points by tilt 11y ago

Somewhat related: https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners

jkot 11y ago

This is excellent, I will add my project soon. Just a small idea: add section with projects which offer rewards for contributors. That should cover: * users who will pay for bugfixing * some sort of small rewards such as bug contests * scholarship (Google Summer of Code | etc...) * non financial rewards such as conference passes

irremediable 11y ago
I like the idea of that, but will many places offer rewards for bugs that are on the easy end like the ones this site catalogues?
metasean 11y ago
FYI: https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ It would be interesting to see some type of collaboration between similar sites, including: - http://24pullrequests.com/ http://24pullrequests.com/ - https://www.codemontage.com/ https://www.codemontage.com/ - http://www.codetriage.com/ http://www.codetriage.com/ - http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/ http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/ - https://bountify.co/ https://bountify.co/ - https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ - http://yourfirstpr.github.io/ http://yourfirstpr.github.io/ - http://socialcoder.org/ http://socialcoder.org/

TerryADavis 11y ago

When I was an intern, more or less, God how awful I was, LOL. I would curse my worst enemy with as many amateur helpers as I could find. I am in charge of the 100,000 lines of code, myself. It is managable by one person.

chris_wot 11y ago

Worthwhile noting that LibreOffice have been doing this for some time now. See: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks

Fogest 11y ago
The table that is supposed to list some "random easy hacks" looks to be empty.

vdnkh 11y ago

I was just about to start a project for this! How did you handle Git's API rate limiting? I was going to be lazy and update my listings every minute with a node scheduler.

jongalloway2 11y ago
They're doing client-side requests and caching pretty heavily in local storage: https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pages/javascripts/main.js#L79 https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pag...
- shiftkey 11y ago
  And I'd love to move this out to something more flexible (and powerful) - see the demo https://github.com/shiftkey/up-for-grabs-api-demo https://github.com/shiftkey/up-for-grabs-api-demo
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]

simik 11y ago

Some sort of subscription (a daily digest?) for new tasks in a category would be nice.

Fogest 11y ago
I second this, however I'd be looking more for a weekly digest, so having some option would be nice.

ishfuseini 11y ago

If I've never contributed before, How should I go about finding issues I can help with? It would be cool if there was a filter for difficulty.

southhare 11y ago
I hadn't contributed until I found this site a month ago. I looked around in a language I was most comfortable in and then checked out some of the projects. Most of the projects on the list had tags for easy or bite-sized on their issue list.
- ishfuseini 11y ago
  I've been teaching myself python for a while now but wasn't sure where to go once I was done with tutorials. Hoping to use this to develop some C# skills as well.
noxToken 11y ago
There are filters. They just aren't listed. I clicked the JS tab to view some issues, and in the left-hand column, I've seen 'newbie-friendly', 'beginner-friendly', and 'easy'.
- ishfuseini 11y ago
  Awesome. Thank you!
victorantos 11y ago
you could start by checking the issues section Github page, one example for AngJobs https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs/issues https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs/issues

unknownzero 11y ago

I really like the idea here. Interesting how many of the projects are in .net, I wonder if that's just the authors language or if there really are a disproportionately higher number of .net projects well organized for accepting new contributors.

shiftkey 11y ago
This is likely a historical thing (the curators have a background in .NET and web development, and have lots of contacts in the .NET OSS space) but not something we want to limit ourselves too.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  I think working with the sites listed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837009 or even GitHub itself could help expand this idea out even further. I really wanted openhatch to take off, but it seems it never did.

imglorp 11y ago

I'm curious about the language culture represented. Of the top three TIOBE languages, there are only 6 projects for C and C++, and none at all for Java. The site seems oriented towards web and windows.

gedrap 11y ago

On a related note, Bugs Ahoy is a similar project for filtering issues in Mozilla projects: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ there's 'Simple bugs' facet at the very bottom. E.g. simple and unassigned bugs http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?unowned=1&simple=1 http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?unowned=1&simple=1

quadrangle 11y ago

Also in this space: https://openhatch.org/ https://openhatch.org/

Niksko 11y ago

This is essentially exactly what I've been wanting. I really want to start doing some real world work on open source projects, because I feel they'll be great experience. However the projects I'd love to work on (TOR among others) are just so dense and impenetrable that I don't even know how to figure out how to get started. This will be really valuable, thanks.

ondrae 11y ago

Great! We made a similar service for civic tech projects, pulling from a long list of volunteer groups and non-profits. It only shows the "help wanted" labels. http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues