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(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lambda 1 points 7 months ago

Exactly. At first it means nothing. Over time they can begin to trust you.