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by mbesto
4134 days ago
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I'm still convinced Assembly[0] is the greatest platform for budding developers to get experience, potentially earn some money, and network with other developers. Trying to commit to open source as a newbie is...well...hard. Most mature FOSS products feel like monstrosities and culturally are intimidating (omg dhh is gonna think I suck). If you're a noob and do wanna go the FOSS route, find libraries you use and are familiar with and contribute. Contributing can be in the form of issue identification and potentially fork/PR's. OR scratch your own itch, even if it's not totally productive. I helped build a Dota2 API gem and I have yet to use it for a project. If you want to go into the actual application building mode, then do check out Assembly. Plenty of JS projects there: https://github.com/asm-products [0] - https://assembly.com/ |
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I agree about intimidation. Some FOSS have very steep contribution requirements.
Here's a slightly exaggerated example:
Oh, you want to add a patch that moves line of code up by 5 lines? Well, first, you need to sign up in our separate issue tracker. Create new issue with properly formatted title and description and add bunch of tags you know nothing about. Don't forget screenshots and demo webpage where you can clearly see the problem. Now, you can do a PR, but you absolutely have to adhere to our issue title formatting. If there's even a tiny typo or it is not in a correct format it will be closed immediately. And then you wait for who knows how long.