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Ask HN: How do I find projects to contribute to on github -- as a Junior dev
I am not skilled enough to identify where mature projects need work -- but I know there must be smaller projects out there that could use even a junior-dev's level of expertise. How do I find such projects?
- jakejake 13y agoWhat languages do you like to work with? One related thing I can suggest is to contact the author first and see if they're interested in help. Because a lot of projects admins are non-responsive to pull requests. Perhaps because they're just busy, they don't really put much time into the project or any other reason. It's kinda frustrating to submit a contribution to a project and then get zero response to your pull request. If you contact them first and they don't even response - that's probably a good tip that they won't respond to your pull request either.
- zachlatta 13y agoSend me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com with a bit more information about yourself and what technologies you work with. I'm working on a few open source projects that could use another developer on them.
- WasimBhai 13y agoIf you are skilled in C++, then I will strongly recommend Opus, and Daala, the open source codecs backed up Mozilla. I have just started contributing and the engineers respond on irc channel rather very well.