• abeorch
    7·
    3 months ago

    I’d love to help out on Open Source projects but have often just not really known where to start. I guess the challenge is to become a experienced enough user of a specific project first.

    • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      That one is maybe the easiest to do :

      express your gratitude to the maintainers

      Besides that there is the possibility to donate. And since the xz backdoor incident I would say it makes sense to keep an eye on end users trying to bully or overload developers. If I remember well I read that the developer of uMatrix stopped with that project because of annoying users filing bug reports with unfriendly and demanding discourse, which can be exhausting for a sole developer.

      • abeorch
        3·
        3 months ago

        Yeah agree this is the easiest… I would like to help carry the load somehow. Perhaps filtering /dealing with comments could be a start.