Coding is very abstract and requires a lot of very specific language knowledge along with concentration requirements. It’s not easy for everyone unfortunately to understand and have the knowledge required. I’m trying to learn! It’s no joke though. (Unlike fartsite.info which is a joke)

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 ...

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 ...

We have other cool shit to do that others can't or don't want to do.

Coding is one of the few things i know almost NOTHING about 😓 Sorry 🤷‍♂️ Hopefully one day

Everyone's saying it's too hard to learn a codebase and fix something. This is not always true. In the case of small issues or typos, I can often jump into a well organized but completely unfamiliar codebase, find what I'm looking for an fix it in a matter of minutes. The real time sink is gettin...