Where can one find low hanging fruit for open source contribution?

[kurofune]

I am an looking for a good, active, open source Clojure library/project to contribute to, but am not sure where to start. Could somebody give an intermediate level programmer a  few pointers as to where to begin? 

[Michael Klishin]

Leiningen has issues tagged "newbie" and its maintainers are some of the nicest
people you'll find in open source:

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/labels/Newbie

Some (unfortunately, only a few to date) ClojureWerkz projects use a similar
tag:
https://github.com/clojurewerkz/elastisch/labels/low-hanging%20fruit

Ultimately I'd recommend contributing to either what you can easily see yourself
using or something that sounds really interesting. Leiningen is something
you will use if you use Clojure, which makes it a no-brainer.
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[kurofune]

Thanks! I'll look into both of those.

[Marcus Blankenship]

A while back Leif Poorman sent out a list of Clojure projects which have tags that indicate novices could contribute to them.  I put them here.

https://github.com/marcuscreo/clojure-learning-resources

On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:34 PM, kurofune <jessel...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am an looking for a good, active, open source Clojure library/project to contribute to, but am not sure where to start. Could somebody give an intermediate level programmer a  few pointers as to where to begin? 

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[Mikera]

I'd suggest picking something based on your own interests. It is always best to work on something where you have personal motivation / passion.

Once you've done that: identify an issue or two that you want to work on, engage with the community (to discuss ideas, check that nobody else is working on the same issue) and finally get hacking.

A plug for a couple of my favourite projects in the data science / numerical computing space (for you, or anyone else who is keen!):

- core.matrix has quite a few fairly accessible enhancements / issues to tackle: https://github.com/mikera/core.matrix/issues

- Incanter is also a very interesting project to work on: https://github.com/incanter/incanter/issues

[Michael Drogalis]

Hi there,

About a week ago, I open sourced Onyx, a new distributed computation platform: https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx

I've been looking for help from developers of all skill levels, though I have 3 or 4 open tasks particularly well suited to someone with intermediate skills.

Two tasks about validating data shape and throwing good error messages:

- https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx/issues/2

- https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx/issues/3

And two feature-level tasks:

- Exposing a Java API: https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx/issues/1

- Creating a simple monitoring dashboard: https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx/issues/12

Takes a bit of learning about the project, but it's pretty cool stuff, and I'd be happy to help you along.

[Marcus Blankenship]

Cool, thanks Michael.  Do you mind if I add it to the Clojure Learning Resources repo page?

https://github.com/marcuscreo/clojure-learning-resources

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[Mike Drogalis]

Please do. :)

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[Michael Blume]

Agree with Michael Klishin, I've gotten a few patches into Leiningen as a relative Clojure newb and the maintainers have been super friendly and helpful.

[António Monteiro]

this website has a weekly curated list of simple tasks to be done in open source Clojure projects (it appeared to me on HN the other day):

http://www.longstorm.org/weekly/cito/1/

Hope it helps.

[Beau Fabry]

LightTable, the editor written in Clojurescript is currently looking for contributors, and have started tagging issues as beginner friendly. https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable

[Eric Normand]

There's a new weekly newsletter called Clojure in the Open that lists small tasks that Open Source projects are asking for:

http://www.longstorm.org/weekly/cito/1/

Eric