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(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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step in and help review a few PRs
help the project triage/reproduce bugs
if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation
express your gratitude to the maintainers
make your company sponsor projects they depend on

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Daniel is the creator of cURL : https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/30/howto-backdoor-curl/

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[-] abeorch@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 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.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 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.