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The graying open source community needs fresh blood (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What can members of the community who can't code help with?

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Depends on your skills. Documentation is always useful. If you have language skills, translation of documentation or helping create language packs/translations.

That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure if I thought about it, I could come up with more.

[–] thingsiplay 10 points 2 months ago

Good advice. I want to add the option to offer money or hardware support. Writing helpful Bug Reports is also a good, especially if you really care with testing. Maybe even do Testing of software and functionality, Beta Tester with reports. Less technical would be designing logos or buttons or any graphical activity for documentation and websites, or for the application itself.

Documentation and Bug Reports are probably the top way to help if you can't code.

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I will look into joining.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Documentation, bug triage and many other non technical tasks

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Can't or don't want to?

I got into a project starting out with translations. Then community support. Then wrote a web interface to the desktop/server application. Then got into the project itself.

Many projects have a contributing document or page with pointers. In general, being part of the community, providing information or support, improving documentation, or the bug tracker (reproduction, labeling, discussing/guiding), translating.

What can be done and what makes sense varies a lot depending on project size and popularity too.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 2 months ago

Project management. See for instance this talk: https://youtu.be/u3PJaiSpbmc?si=FbQGTfx4nERCb0R-