Feeling overwhelmed when trying to contribute to opensource projects

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  • bisq

    A decentralized bitcoin exchange network

    The problem is that I get easily overwhelmed because most of the interesting projects are big and I don't even know how and where to start. For example I tried taking a look at Bisq because my main language is Java, and investigating any reported issue seem very very difficult, and like it will take forever, because I don't even know where to start. Do you guys have any advice/ good approach to make things easier ? or should I just give it time ? and expect being able to contribute only after few weeks/months of checking the source code ? Thanks.

  • datastation

    App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.

    I keep a page of good first projects for two big projects I work on. The only expectation is that you know Go. I've had a couple of people who've never contributed to OSS come in and get some meaningful features merged.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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