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Ask HN: Small Open source projects that need contributions

31 pointsmrguyorama18 comments

I want to help open source projects, or just provide programming ability to those who could use it.

What small, unknown, open source projects do you think could use an extra hand?

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Like python?

I'm could use a hand.

The codebase across all of these projects are solid. CI already wired in, including Sphinx + ReadTheDocs.

Help could be QA'ing pull requests, making features, documentation, and so on.

Here's an example project: https://tmuxp.git-pull.com - Request: https://github.com/tony/tmuxp/issues/290

Anything else on the sidebar, underneath of "Projects" of https://git-pull.com

Of all those, cihai (https://cihai.git-pull.com) doesn't have as much traction, but if you like Chinese/Japanese/Korean, it may be a fit. I'm building it to be a successor to Christoph Burgmer's cjklib (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cjklib).

First time seeing tmuxp and this sounds pretty interesting.

> tmuxp helps you manage tmux workspaces.

> Built on a object relational mapper for tmux. tmux users can reload common workspaces from YAML, JSON and dict configurations like tmuxinator and teamocil.

I've always wanted the ability to cross sync my projects and sessions across IDEs, particularly with Sublime with its projects and then one to many workspaces per project. A Sublime-tmuxp bridge would be amazing.

Not necessarily small, but Pylint (https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint) is always looking for new contributors. The project is an advanced linter, with a powerful inference engine (https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid), so there are lots of interesting things to contribute to.

I would love to have more help with Task:

https://github.com/go-task/task

Usually, though, people contribute to the projects they use. Not only because it's a boost in motivation, but also because you usually need to know very well the project to have enough context to be able to contribute.

Pipenv? See a recent post by (what I assume) is one of the maintainers. https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/pipenv-one-year-later-a-...

What do you consider small (approx lines of code, number of contributors, number of maintainers, etc)?

What's your background in (programming languages, technical skills (e.g. documentation exp, computer vision), etc)?

I am currently actively looking for contributors for one project I help maintain ( http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net or https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx ), however I would say it is more of a 'medium' scale FLOSS project. Though it may be a 'small' project based upon how you define things.

I was purposely being vague because I wanted to give people a good excuse to flaunt any repo they feel needs saving

Also that project looks awesome. I think I'll show it to my Audio Engineer buddy. It could be good motivation for me to work on it!

OpenPDF is an open source Java library for creating PDF files: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF

It's not unknown, but for example https://wekan.github.io is small with about 11,095 lines of code without frameworks https://www.openhub.net/p/wekan when compared to Kanboard that has 186,254 lines of code https://www.openhub.net/p/kanboard . There are still many bugs to fix.

D[0] has a lot of open bugs[1], just because there aren't enough people to get to and fix them all. On a rather smaller scale, there's ante[2], although it's unclear there's much that can be done to help there.

0: https://dlang.org/

1: https://issues.dlang.org/

2: https://github.com/jfecher/ante

http://up-for-grabs.net is a consistent source for open source projects that could use some help.

I ended up getting my first software dev job from this site. Contributed to a project I found on there enough that they ended up hiring me.

Have been meaning to pay back to the community at some point, either via contributions to up-for-grabs or another "open source encouragement" project but haven't had the time yet.

If you know low level, there's Blocknet https://github.com/BlocknetDX/BlockDX

This is a trustless blockchain interoperability protocol which enables the transfer of data and value across different blockchains. If interested, you can reach out to contact@blocknet.co

If you are good with the UI, I have a project which UI sucks: https://github.com/AlexITC/crypto-coin-alerts

The server side is stronger and you are welcome to contribute.

Take a look at http://openhatch.org They try to match potential contributors with projects based on the needs of the project and the skills of the contributor.

Would alway appreciate some help with this:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

It is an open source real estate website builder

You can try my project: https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw ;)

just sent this to some people who work in a drug discovery lab, hope they can use it!

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