• bmcgonag@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 months ago

    I personally think you should move the fourth bullet (express your gratitude to the maintainers) to the first position in your list. But a great, simple list none-the-less.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    Make your company sponsor projects they depend on

    Definitely worth trying to do, but making my employer do anything isn’t likely!

  • Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    8 months ago

    Sometimes an open source project is too niche for anyone to take notice. I myself am developing a networking reliability layer ported from C to modern C++ and I’ve yet to see a person use it except yours truly. Sad truth.

  • abeorch@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’d love to help out on Open Source projects but have often just not really known where to start. I guess the challenge is to become a experienced enough user of a specific project first.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      That one is maybe the easiest to do :

      express your gratitude to the maintainers

      Besides that there is the possibility to donate. And since the xz backdoor incident I would say it makes sense to keep an eye on end users trying to bully or overload developers. If I remember well I read that the developer of uMatrix stopped with that project because of annoying users filing bug reports with unfriendly and demanding discourse, which can be exhausting for a sole developer.

      • abeorch@lemmy.ml
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah agree this is the easiest… I would like to help carry the load somehow. Perhaps filtering /dealing with comments could be a start.