Contributing

Contributing to open source can some times not be easy.

Many times you'll hear from people "just do it", and then you get lost in someone else's project without a guiding hand; confused by the many possibilities that exist and the many questions that you have. I know - because I've been there many years ago.

I'm offering what sadly I didn't have for myself, many years ago. A guiding hand, and in marking up what I think is good tasks for newcomers.

View the issue list here: https://github.com/jondot/sneakers/issues?labels=low-hanging-fruit&page=1&state=open

What I'm Suggesting

I will open issues tagged 'low-hanging-fruit', for newcomers who want to contribute to open source. These will be small, easy tasks that are cool to do and do not take more than 2 hours.

Example format for the issue:

Until: 6-feb-2014
Difficulty: 20min

Description of the feature, technical pointers and technical direction for implementing it.

A note about "Until" - this is a date which I think I will be able to implement it myself. If you can do it before the date, please feel free to do so. On other cases "Until" will just be "open".

Even better

Perhaps after you've pushed a few new features you'd feel you can mentor others? or create new low-hanging-fruit issues for others?
Kindness is a universal thing :)