After being a subscriber to hn for the last decade, a post I'm affected enough by to create an account.

After wanting to contribute to open source projects for my entire career (I've previously worked at FAANGs and am a technical lead now), I've had 0% success in attaining this goal. Here's been my experience:

  -reached out to the Apache Tomcat team -> silence

  -joined Linux Kernel Newbies -> code is such terrible quality I might unlearn somethings

  -joined LLVM's mailing list -> lack of issues for beginners

I'm now looking to contributing to Spring Boot, Apache Cassandra, or Hadoop, but I didn't imagine it would be difficult to contribute to open source.