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Sirs i have comfy job that I almost never have to do any work, which is cool but i wanna learn new things and have a challenge.
So my idea was to start contributing to open source. Obviously im not trying to jump into linux or apache spark. Also i dont wanna waste my time chasing goy points on github by making PRs to kumar's fizzbuzz calculator #69343292892.
Using chatgpt i tried to match my experience (mostly cloud microservices in java) with real, useful software. So chatgpt could find a lot of useful software used by NGOs, enviroment scientists and alternatives to cloud providers. Problem is that these projects are supposed to be understaffed af because nobody getting paid. But i tried actually browsing their issues page and they do have a lot of people already. A couple projects i browsed dont even had open issues. They are all assigned or closed.
So any tips?
>inb4 contribute to a software you already use
This tip from youtube is useless. For example, i use bouncy castle and lombok at work, but never had a problem with these deps like oh, cool i see a bug here let me go to their github page to open a pr fixing it.
Am i supposed to pick some software from github, use it for months to find bugs then go fix it? Too much cuckery for my taste.
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forgot about all that normie shit and make a gegl based gimp plugin
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Ideally i would like to use what i already know, to help some free software and also learn new things. For example im interest in learning more about concurrency and jmv tunning but im that impossible at my job. I dont see the point of reading a book about the subject or making some toy project about this topic.
>gimp plugin
I could but i dont have a need for a gimp plugin in my life. So whats the point of making something that wont be used by me or others?
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