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After being a subscriber to hn for the last decade, a post I'm affected enough by to create an account. After wanting to contribute to open source projects for
by organicfigs 7y ago
After being a subscriber to hn for the last decade, a post I'm affected enough by to create an account.
After wanting to contribute to open source projects for my entire career (I've previously worked at FAANGs and am a technical lead now), I've had 0% success in attaining this goal. Here's been my experience:
-reached out to the Apache Tomcat team -> silence
-joined Linux Kernel Newbies -> code is such terrible quality I might unlearn somethings
-joined LLVM's mailing list -> lack of issues for beginners
I'm now looking to contributing to Spring Boot, Apache Cassandra, or Hadoop, but I didn't imagine it would be difficult to contribute to open source.
- fourthark 7y agoYou might want to look at smaller projects. But it’s generally true that maintainers don’t have a lot of time and you might get ignored for many reasons. If there’s a project you use which has bugs, reporting them and submitting fixes is always a great way to start!