Ask HN: What kinds of help are open source projects looking for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2295308

by windsurfer • 15 years ago

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What kind of person are you looking for? What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project? Is there anything simple you would like people to help with?

(inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294072)

mindcrime• 15 years ago

What kind of person are you looking for?

Curious, motivated, and has initiative. Not scared to take on things that are "too big." Smart, confident, but not too arrogant.

What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project?

There's all sorts of stuff my project(s) could use help with. Simple stuff like going through GSP (Groovy Server Pages) pages and replacing instances of hard-coded URL strings with the appropriate tags that generate that stuff, and more involved stuff like UI improvements; to hard-core backend stuff involving experimental / research-oriented machine-learning stuff.

Is there anything simple you would like people to help with?

Sure,there's always low hanging fruit that is good for people just getting involved in a project. If you want to take a look at my project, see:

http://code.google.com/p/neddick and/or http://code.google.com/p/quoddy

Or if you'd rather skip straight to the source code, see:

https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick and/or https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

Ask HN: What kinds of help are open source projects looking for?

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