I’m a DevOps engineer with git experience and in supporting software teams. How can I help in the development of Jerboa for Lemmy and for the fediverse in general? Should I learn the language and literally code, or can I groom the backlog, or so user testing?

  • @FearTheCron
    3•1 year ago

    The easiest way to get started is to just find a self contained issue on the issue tracker and fix it.
    Most major open source projects will have documents on how to contribute but the workflow is typically something like:

    1. Fork the repository and make a branch
    2. Fix the issue
    3. Make a pull request back to the original repository.

    When you are getting started, it helps to make small changes that the maintainers can easily review. For example, this issue looks like something that may be fixable without too many changes. Also, evaluating the patch is pretty easy since the bug is reproducible.