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OpenHatch: Browse open source for ways you can contribute (or add your project)

41 points by paulproteus 17y ago

paulproteus 17y ago
(I'm the submitter.) It turns out there are hundreds of open source projects where the maintainers mark bugs as good for new contributors. So here you can browse them. The projects range from well-known like the Python language and Firefox down to small MediaWiki extensions. If you're up to your neck in code and would rather write some documentation, you can try that, too. Penny for your thoughts.
MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
Neat idea. Does it pull the results automatically, or is someone submitting these somewhere?
- paulproteus 17y ago
  It is automatic -- it crawls projects' bug trackers. That way, projects can mark bugs as "good for newcomers" without us forcing them to use new tools. Having said that, the site does give projects a space to write about ways people can get involved beyond what's in the bug trackers. You can see at https://openhatch.org/+projects/Gally https://openhatch.org/+projects/Gally that a project maintainer requested something rather unique: a call for videos of people signing individual words in American Sign Language.
  - wlievens 17y ago
    Somewhat tangential: where did you get the idea of using '+' in your URL's? I haven't seen that before :-)
    - drewp 16y ago
      That style is also used on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706 I'm not sure where it came from originally.
tjarratt 17y ago
This is really cool, here's hoping people add some more projects. It would be great to have a place where people can go to find projects and problems to work for a bit. I've contributed to a few open source projects before, but the problem is always with finding a good project, seeing if there are any bugs that are reproducible and easy enough to fix without knowing the entire architecture like the back of your hand. Having all that work done and easily searchable is great.

41 points by paulproteus 17y ago

(I'm the submitter.) It turns out there are hundreds of open source projects where the maintainers mark bugs as good for new contributors. So here you can browse them. The projects range from well-known like the Python language and Firefox down to small MediaWiki extensions. If you're up to your neck in code and would rather write some documentation, you can try that, too. Penny for your thoughts.

MicahWedemeyer 17y ago

Neat idea. Does it pull the results automatically, or is someone submitting these somewhere?

paulproteus 17y ago
It is automatic -- it crawls projects' bug trackers. That way, projects can mark bugs as "good for newcomers" without us forcing them to use new tools. Having said that, the site does give projects a space to write about ways people can get involved beyond what's in the bug trackers. You can see at https://openhatch.org/+projects/Gally https://openhatch.org/+projects/Gally that a project maintainer requested something rather unique: a call for videos of people signing individual words in American Sign Language.
- wlievens 17y ago
  Somewhat tangential: where did you get the idea of using '+' in your URL's? I haven't seen that before :-)
  - drewp 16y ago
    That style is also used on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706 I'm not sure where it came from originally.

tjarratt 17y ago

This is really cool, here's hoping people add some more projects. It would be great to have a place where people can go to find projects and problems to work for a bit. I've contributed to a few open source projects before, but the problem is always with finding a good project, seeing if there are any bugs that are reproducible and easy enough to fix without knowing the entire architecture like the back of your hand. Having all that work done and easily searchable is great.