• bmcgonag@lemmy.world
    24·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    7 months ago

    Make your company sponsor projects they depend on

    Definitely worth trying to do, but making my employer do anything isn’t likely!

  • twei@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    7 months ago

    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
      2·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • Ted Jackson@aussie.zone
    7·
    7 months ago

    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
      3·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • abeorch@lemmy.ml
    7·
    7 months ago

    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.mlOPEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      That one is maybe the easiest to do :

      express your gratitude to the maintainers

      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
        3·
        7 months ago

        Yeah agree this is the easiest… I would like to help carry the load somehow. Perhaps filtering /dealing with comments could be a start.

  • Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    7 months ago

    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.