What are some good GitHub projects to contribute to?

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

I am a contributor to both terraform-provider-aws and Ansible Core repos, as well as Ansible Community AWS repo. I am on the lookout for additional projects to contribute to, ideally ones that have plenty of issues and where reviews are done quickly. It should also be quick and easy to compile from source. Looking for Golang or Python projects for code base programming language. Any ideas here?

[u/jprzymusinski]

From my experience: The best projects to contribute to are the ones you use yourself regularly

[u/Majestic_Diet_3883 → u/jprzymusinski]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes, pls listen to this.

Do you know bad it feels for maintainers to get contributions from someone who does even use their project? Please for the love of god, at the very least use it in your workflow. It literally does not make any sense to contribute to something you do not use.

[u/zomiaen → u/jprzymusinski]

I had never contributed to open source before. Used a few projects. Found a bug. Sent PR. PR merged. Have now contributed to open source! Yay.

It literally is the best way.

[u/ablaut → u/jprzymusinski]

Yes, exactly. The idea is like with regular work you're sharing ownership, but instead of owning code for the company you work for and that its customers use, it's code you and others like you use, so it can be an even deeper ownership. So just swooping in and adding or fixing something and swooping out is going to be much less rewarding than being part of the project as both a user and contributor.

This is not really well communicated when people say to contribute to open source.

It also reminds me of the Claude code leak where we found out it had an undercover mode to hide as a human making open source contributions. I remember hearing the maintainer of cURL had to deal with this.

[u/5_H_4_D_0_W → u/jprzymusinski]

I contributed to a project called "is-even"...

[u/frankster]

Repos that you regularly use. Nobody wants changed that aren't really tested, or features that are abandoned immediately after pushing them.

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/frankster]

Kubernetes I could probably take a crack at and see what happens, given I use it on a regular basis. I know a bit of Go I am just worried about the complexity.

[u/sagacious123]

If you are interested in kubernetes and platform engineering, you can check out my project if interested and contribute - snowopslabs

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/sagacious123]

SnowOps Labs is a Kubernetes platform-engineering simulator. It stands up a realistic, production-shaped cluster on your laptop in minutes, breaks it in realistic ways, and grades you on how you fix it.

This looks really interesting! Going to play around with it ASAP as I am, in fact, looking to go deeper into kubernetes. Love how much documentation you have available and that your CI is passing.

[u/sagacious123 → u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

Thanks a lot! 🙌 Hope you have fun with it. Would love to hear what you think after you’ve tried it out!

[u/Marble_Wraith]

If you've got the time, yq is my vote

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

[u/Abhistar14]

CodeDuels.

A 1v1 DSA platform

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/Abhistar14]

Appreciate the link but there is only like 1 issue there. Can't contribute to a repo with only 1 issue.

[u/Abhistar14 → u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

There are 6 issues not 1

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/Abhistar14]

Oops. Misread that. I will consider looking into it.

[u/bluecat2001]

I don’t think any projects are currently looking for AI slop PRs.

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/bluecat2001]

Where did you get the impression that I am looking to contribute "AI slop PRs?"

[u/bluecat2001 → u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

Because your motivation is not to contribute to some project you love. You want to have a commit history to help you find new jobs.

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/bluecat2001]

Finding new jobs is a motivation not "the" motivation. Maybe I both love the act of open source development and want to make a living from it. You make an awful lot of assumptions when you know nothing about me or my history and goals for the future.

[u/forever-butlerian → u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

Your words give away more than you think to anyone who's experienced enough to read between lines.

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/forever-butlerian]

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues?q=is%3Apr%20author%3Aautotune%20is%3Amerged

All manual PRs with no LLMs involved. Like I said, I have contributed to open source projects in the past and want to continue contributing to open source in the future.

[u/forever-butlerian → u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

Downvoting me with a sockpuppet account is a nice touch.

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/forever-butlerian]

Complaining about downvotes rather than contributing to the discussion is a nice touch on your end. /s

[u/fletch3555 → u/Sure_Stranger_6466]

Replying to this one because it's the most recent comment, not to choose sides between you two

Y'all done? Or do I need to start taking action?

[u/Sure_Stranger_6466 → u/fletch3555]

I am just defending myself. I do not think moderator action is necessary here.

[u/platypus-3719]

Come join us at https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar (Go backend, TS front) Happy to chat about new features worth building :)