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(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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  • 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

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Daniel is the creator of cURL : https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/30/howto-backdoor-curl/

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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