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step in and help review a few PRs
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help the project triage/reproduce bugs
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if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation
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express your gratitude to the maintainers
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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/
14 Comments
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Definitely worth trying to do, but making my employer do anything isn’t likely!
bmcgonag@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
I personally think you should move the fourth bullet (express your gratitude to the maintainers) to the first position in your list. But a great, simple list none-the-less.
twei@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y
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 · 1 pts · 2y
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.
abeorch@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
I'd love to help out on Open Source projects but have often just not really known where to start. I guess the challenge is to become a experienced enough user of a specific project first.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
That one is maybe the easiest to do :
Besides that there is the possibility to donate. And since the xz backdoor incident I would say it makes sense to keep an eye on end users trying to bully or overload developers. If I remember well I read that the developer of uMatrix stopped with that project because of annoying users filing bug reports with unfriendly and demanding discourse, which can be exhausting for a sole developer.
abeorch@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah agree this is the easiest.. I would like to help carry the load somehow. Perhaps filtering /dealing with comments could be a start.
TedJ70@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
If the project has a community forum or chat, be active and help answer questions. That takes a lot of pressure off the dev team. I did that for 4-5 years on the Handbrake project before family commitments ate up my free time.
vpklotar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I myself am a maintainer/main developer of a project and the people that help out in the group chat are a god sent. Takes a lot of pressure out of my day.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Cool. Good suggestion.
Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Sometimes an open source project is too niche for anyone to take notice. I myself am developing a networking reliability layer ported from C to modern C++ and I've yet to see a person use it except yours truly. Sad truth.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
😐 Care to share the project web link ?
Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
https://github.com/Gallardo994/imkcpp
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
👍
Your project shows 6 stars and 1 watching. 6 open and 6 closed issues. Not bad.