I am a Software Engineer by trade, and I'm right now trying to learn and contribute to their code base but unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to get used to someone else's code. Hopefully, contributions will pick up once we've all had some time to look at it.

Maybe this is a good excuse for me to (apologies) shake off the Rust and contribute some. I’ve only contributed once or twice to a FOSS project, though, so I’ll need to read up a little on best practices and etiquette.

Maybe I should learn Rust for this. I've never used it but otherwise I've got 20 years of programming experience so can probably pick it up. I'm very experienced with web development so maybe that's a better area where I can contribute.

Someone mentioned that kbin uses PHP which makes it tempting to switch over... I do experience with PHP.

They probably could use more manpower to some extent but we're all forgetting The Mythical Man-Month; just chucking more bodies at a software project doesn't necessarily speed it up any more than nine women can have a baby in one month.

That said I'm happy to do the odd bit here and there if there's any call for it, either for lemmy itself or BeeHaw.

I'm a professional dev who's been doing Rust for a few years, and I just looked into their repo for the core project this morning. They've tagged some issues as being good for newcomers, which is helpful. I already reviewed someone's code there to try to help.

I intend to try to pick off some issues. I like to write code, and I'd like to see this project improve.

I would love to participate. I've been doing Rust professionally for seven years now and I understand the language very well. Too bad there is just so much work already and adding a new project feels a bit too much. I'd love to read the source one day though, maybe I find some time.

They aren't in serious need. The lemmy and lemmy-ui projects have 4-5 regular devs as I can see it. It's just only 2 people being listed. I believe they are also working on getting help managing lemmy.ml.

As I see it, neither of them spend their time on jerboa either, it has two other regular devs.

A lot of the issues that are created are either duplicates, unimportant or useless suggestions. But there are still some major design decisions that are being actively discussed.

Nutomic and dessalines are just the only paid full-time developers of the projects.

Front-end developers

There was a posting I saved about some people saying they were going to code on front-end: https://lemmy.ml/post/1199330

I started looking into building a theme for Lemmy, but it was quite difficult to get everything to run well locally. When I did a checkout the main branch had an error in the Rust code and the main branch of the ui had an error that prevented the websocket from connecting to the back-en. I did get it to work by fixing the small error in rust and using a branch that fixed the websocket error. But it was hard to get started.

I was wondering if there is a Lemmy development community here on Lemmy. I tried searching for it on Lemmy.ml, but the cummunties about Lemmy and support don’t really look like they are about development.

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They probably could use more manpower to some extent but we’re all forgetting The Mythical Man-Month; just chucking more bodies at a software project doesn’t necessarily speed it up any more than nine women can have a baby in one month.

Sure, but look at the rapid progress llama.cpp made in the past 3 months, especially in the 1-2 weeks after its launch

btw, my instance just linked to this community so I don't see your comment (which is why this is a root level comment)

I wish so badly I could code, I spent 8 years trying to understand it and get into the industry, but it never quite clicked in my brain. Soooo I do IT infrastructure. I wish so badly to contribute code

The previous calls for forking were not convincing (political), but this post makes sense to, if the community is unable to contribute because of a lack of attention from external help.

I’m not sure if that’s the case and I’ll have to have a look myself.

I’m happy to contribute, and hopefully the process of new contributors (CONTRIBUTORS.md) is easy and straightforward, and the issues are triaged by someone dedicated, perhaps from the community.

One of the first things I did when I learned about Lemmy and joined an instance is see if I could contribute in some way, shape or form.

But unfortunately it's written in Rust, a language in which I have 0 experience and 0 knowledge. :(

I'm hoping to contribute to jerboa. That's more my wheel house than rust

How is PHP doing these days? It used to be hugely popular, but seems to have fallen into disregard in a lot of circles. I wonder if PHP being seen as a "easier" language than rust will attract more kbin developers?

i am a noob, but i'll try just help me when i make mistake.

I'm not a dev, but I do have SOME coding experience and have been wanting to help with some open source projects, if nothing else but for the experience. Rust has been on my "to learn" list for like a year now. I def have a lot to learn, but the best way to learn is to get your hands dirty. I'll take a look at the Github page and see if there's any low-hanging fruit I can try to tackle lol

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I can help with some of these. My coding skills are out of practice, and idk any Rust yet, but I'm a fast learner. Currently learning how to use git to fork a repo, add code, and create a PR, then I'll go learn some Rust syntax and get to work! I'm actually really excited! I've been wanting to figure out how to contribute to FOSS projects since I started daily driving Arch Linux like a year ago, and this is a great opporunity for me to learn!

If anyone has any development tips for a noob like me, let me know! I'm going in pretty blind here, so any advice is appreciated!

Thank you for this. Finally a good reason to learn more rust 👍

As a dev who never even heard of Rust, it sounds interesting.

Saly, I have no experience in programming, but I'll at least help with transations.