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?

  • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
    17·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      9 hours ago

      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.