Hi friends of Free Software,
just did a small search to see if there are guides out there that explain how to give a change to a Free Software product. Do you know good ones?
This would be about * Open a issue or discussion about the feature or fix. * Write up arguments (technical details, what users are interested in) * How to contribute code
It should be general (so not specific to a code hosting platform or a Free Software product or community) and if possible from a credible source (one where the potential conflicts of interest are known and one that works mainly by journalistic or scientific standards).
Here are few that were _not_ a good match for me: * https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/08/03/getting-started-with-contributing-to-o... ( too mich on how to find anything to contribute to, no a specific one.) * https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/open-source-guides/participating-i... (too little on how to actually do it.)
* https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute (comes from one platform github)
* https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html (About writing defect reports.)
* https://producingoss.com/en/index.html (From the perspective of producing an FS product and building up a development community.)
Ideas, anybody? (Links in German also welcome.)
Best Regards, Bernhard
So you are talking a guide about how to contribute to a project?
I wrote a book that is free and open source (GPL license because I don't care) on github about my experience in various communities and activities/roles (115 pages):
https://daniele.tech/2020/07/contribute-to-open-source-the-right-way-2nd-edi...
I wrote it because I got a lot of people asking me that question so I written a book that has everything from community management to maintainer or speaker as example. There is also a list of external resources and other stuff inside.
Daniele Scasciafratte - OpenSource MultiVersal Guy daniele.tech https://daniele.tech - @Mte90Net https://twitter.com/Mte90net - GitHub https://github.com/Mte90 - Italian Linux Society council member http://www.ils.org/ - Mozillian https://people.mozilla.org/p/Mte90 Mozilla Reps, Mozilla TechSpeakers, WordPress Core Contributor https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90, FSFE member https://fsfe.org/, LibreItalia member http://www.libreitalia.it/soci/, Wikimedia Italia member https://www.wikimedia.it/ and LUG Rieti founder http://lugrieti.linux.it/. Il 08/09/21 12:54, Bernhard E. Reiter ha scritto:
Hi friends of Free Software,
just did a small search to see if there are guides out there that explain how to give a change to a Free Software product. Do you know good ones?
This would be about
- Open a issue or discussion about the feature or fix.
- Write up arguments (technical details, what users are interested in)
- How to contribute code
It should be general (so not specific to a code hosting platform or a Free Software product or community) and if possible from a credible source (one where the potential conflicts of interest are known and one that works mainly by journalistic or scientific standards).
Here are few that were _not_ a good match for me:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/08/03/getting-started-with-contributing-to-o... ( too mich on how to find anything to contribute to, no a specific one.)
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/open-source-guides/participating-i... (too little on how to actually do it.)
*https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute (comes from one platform github)
*https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html (About writing defect reports.)
*https://producingoss.com/en/index.html (From the perspective of producing an FS product and building up a development community.)
Ideas, anybody? (Links in German also welcome.)
Best Regards, Bernhard
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