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Ask HN: What's the best way to find and collaborate in open source projects?
hos234 1598 days ago [-]
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/

Use the list to get a sense of whats out there. Then track a couple devs doing things you like. Fix/file simple bugs, improve their docs, scripts etc on their repos. That usually opens doors. Preferably target people who communicate well, respond fast, and are constantly improving things. Disciplined people usually are the best to work with.

bartcobain 1598 days ago [-]
This is the kind of site that what is was looking for. Thank you.
sgillen 1598 days ago [-]
Yeah I agree with non-entity. I recommend maybe finding some projects you're interested in USING, creating a new project, and then hopefully contribute any bugfixes you can manage to find. I find just opening up a good bug report is a good place to start and feel out the developer community and culture around a project.
non-entity 1598 days ago [-]
Personally, I was never able to just pick something and contribute to it. The few times I have contributed to an OSS project have been when I've been working on something and uncover a problem that I think I can fix.
Jefro118 1597 days ago [-]
I made a site for this: https://sourcesort.com/contribute

Beyond things like language and topic, you can also filter for things like how long maintainers take to respond to pull requests or how likely your PRs are to be accepted.

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