Thank you Aria. I think your advice would be useful for me. Isabek
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 8:47:51 PM UTC+6, Aria Stewart wrote: > > > Vào 18:36:15 UTC+7 Thứ Sáu, ngày 23 tháng 1 năm 2015, Isabek Tashiev đã > viết: > > > > I am Isabek. And I'm Node.JS developer as beginner level. I want to > contribute to some Open Source Node.JS project. It would be cool, if > someone in this community could point me a right direction. > > > On Jan 28, 2015, at 1:17 AM, nguyen huu tho <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Same here > > > > > To both of you: There's thousands of projects out there. > > There's big popular stuff like express, > http://github.com/strongloop/express -- look at the issues and pitch in, > but expect lots of scrutiny because it's a mature project that people > depend on. Same goes for other high-profile things. Most of the work there > is in deciding what to do and what not to do. > > There's tons of tiny stuff with bugs to fix, too. Check out the npmjs.com > site and look for projects that interest you. Most have GitHub repos you > can jump in on. Saying hi to the maintainers on Twitter or by email is > often polite and makes it less "some random person on the internet wants to > change all my projects" and you'll be more recognizable as you comment on > issues. > > One place you can make a nice impact is looking for projects with out of > date dependencies -- look in the node security project and see what modules > have security vulnerabilities, and do some searching to find modules that > use those, and make pull requests to use the current version. Extra points > for testing thoroughly, and extra extra points for porting to new major > versions of modules without breaking backward compatibility. > > If you have an idea out of the blue, prototype it and make a pull request > on GitHub to the project it affects. It may not get merged, if the author > finds it out of scope or complicated or not what they would do, but the > experience of talking through it is a great learning experience too. > > I hope this helps and isn't too overwhelming! > > Aria -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/58ebc62d-04bf-4027-b2c6-5e947a4a1602%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
