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imagine if everyone could code and if they ran into an issue they could just fix it themselves. I thought this would be way more common since damus is open source, but we get close to an average of 1-2 fixes from random people every *year*.

jslade · 53w

Even for capable coders, it is far from easy to just jump into some open source project and fix a bug. Getting familiar with the code, setting up a project to work with your local dev tools (or setting up entirely new tools needed for the project), learning how to test a change (even if the project ...

<old>cypherhoodlum · 53w

The onboarding documentation for casual contributions needs to start from "what is version control, what is the concept of a pull request, what are the ways to contact the devs and who is the dev to contact and for what?" Then the documentation must declare the process of setting up the development ...