• resetbypeer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Every year, around Christmas I donate to a project that I use a lot. Also some projects more than once (wikipedia, Signal)

  • Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I mostly write bug reports as my code is not up to par with most projects and my native language is always already translated…

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I donate ~30$ a month divided over a few projects but I want to donate more once I can and also to bigger things that would donate for me to many projects and not just the ones that I think of (please give suggestions to such projects or foundations!)

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    104 contributions in last year on codeberg, 52 contributions on github (some are duplicated from codeberg due to mirroring), some more in other places.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I write a lot of my own software and open source it. And very few of those projects ever have/get any contributions from anyone else. In fact, most of the recent ones literally only have one commit out on Gitlab. And it’s pretty rare that I contribute to existing open source projects.

    Many years ago, I contributed as part of my job a fair amount to a some WYSIWYG documentation writing web app associated with the Gentoo project. I think that web app is long-since dead and gone. (Not my fault, I promise. Lol.)

    Since then, nothing concrete I can think of.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Unfortunately never. I’m no Linux programmer and I have no idea how to use that space-shuttle-cockpit-shaped menu for crowd translation

    • scrambled777@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Hey mate. I started translating for programs on Weblate. I had never done anything like that before.

      Just make an account on the weblate, choose the language you want to translate in and go from there.

      I had 2 weeks off so translated a lot of software.

      If I can figure it out then so can you and anyone.

      Cheers

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    7 months ago
    • I have commits accepted to major projects you have heard of. Mainly because I have no patience for a poorly worded README.
    • I co-maintain a couple of mildly popular things you almost certainly haven’t even heard of.
    • I solely maintain a half dozen utilities that are only used by myself and some brave souls who randomly found them on GitHub.

    TL;DR: I am an open source hipster, because “you probably haven’t heard of” my work, but I think it’s pretty keen.

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Semi-regularly.

    I fairly often send patches for small bug fixes and features. I also maintain a few packages in nixpkgs. I also forked an abandoned project to provide some fixes and updates, so I maintain that now.

    I also try to give a donation to an open-source project that I use every couple of months.

    I also have a bunch of my own projects that I released as open source, but I don’t think that is really what the question is asking.

  • roertel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I like to think that using FOSS daily, singing its praises to everyone and filing out the occasional bug report counts.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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      7 months ago

      It does. I wish more people recognized that bug reports are contributions.

      Probably only 1% of users file bug reports. That means for every 100 times a bug is found by a user, 99 of them won’t bother reporting it. Devs can’t fix a bug they dont know about…

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I used to contribute more when I was at a job where I was unsatisfied. Python was my first language that I really enjoyed writing, regardless of the occasional warts. There are other many other languages I enjoy. Instead, the job had me writing shitty Ant code when I could write code. So I would contribute to OSS projects in my spare time. Now that I’m at a job where my creative juices get flowing on a regular basis, I contribute less. Most of my contributions have been related to a work project that needs this or that fixed upstream. That would have been impossible previously, since we had a big steaming pile of shitty Ant code that had been written from scratch. No upstreaming fixes for that because it had very minimal dependencies.