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How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects?
I use open source self hosted software everyday. I love the community and I would love to be able to contribute to some of these projects.
As far as code goes, I basically no nothing about how it works. I see the development section of the repos I use and again, I’ve go no idea how it works.
How can I teach myself how to offer small improvements to the projects I use?
Replying to @philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club
Not all support of oss is code related. Updating documentation is a really important part too but programmers are generally bad at it.
Translating documentation to other languages too.
For a project I liked I saw that the translation of the UI was only about 1% complete for my native language. I decided to dedicate the weekend to get it above 95%. This was apparently the part that seemed too hard for most to make a dent in, but across several new versions my language is still 100%. I think my groundwork made it easier for some sporadic contributors to get a small bit of dopamine when updating the few new strings in a release to see it hit 100% again.
You are the hero your community needed! It makes a huge difference for a lot of people when they can read a screen without having to guess what the English words mean.