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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

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/112194895793007918

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

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[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 7 months ago

is "step in and help review a few PRs" really that helpful? like... oh great, now this one person that i don't trust is telling me that the other person that i don't trust made some code that i should merge

[-] solarvector@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

How does one become trusted? If they regularly review and provide feedback that you agree with it can really speed up the process, even if you're still double checking.