OpenHatch: Browse open source for ways you can contribute (or add your project)
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It turns out there are hundreds of open source projects where the maintainers mark bugs as good for new contributors. So here you can browse them. The projects range from well-known like the Python language and Firefox down to small MediaWiki extensions.
If you're up to your neck in code and would rather write some documentation, you can try that, too.
Penny for your thoughts.
I've contributed to a few open source projects before, but the problem is always with finding a good project, seeing if there are any bugs that are reproducible and easy enough to fix without knowing the entire architecture like the back of your hand. Having all that work done and easily searchable is great.
Having said that, the site does give projects a space to write about ways people can get involved beyond what's in the bug trackers. You can see at https://openhatch.org/+projects/Gally that a project maintainer requested something rather unique: a call for videos of people signing individual words in American Sign Language.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706
I'm not sure where it came from originally.