• step in and help review a few PRs

  • help the project triage/reproduce bugs

  • if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation

  • express your gratitude to the maintainers

  • 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/

  • abeorch@lemmy.ml
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    3 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.ml
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      3 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
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        3 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.