How to empower your open source users and contributors

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  • Bugzilla

    Official repository for the Bugzilla bug tracking system. Report bugs to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&format=__default__ . Main website:

    While many projects these days choose to take reports of issues alongside where their code is hosted, some prefer to use an open source or third-party solution, such as Bugzilla or Trac. Wherever a project takes reports of issues and discusses them, making it very clear where community members should report current issues makes it an easier experience for them. As a side benefit, it lowers costs for maintainers by reducing the amount of redirection they need to do.

  • Trac

    Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects (mirror)

    While many projects these days choose to take reports of issues alongside where their code is hosted, some prefer to use an open source or third-party solution, such as Bugzilla or Trac. Wherever a project takes reports of issues and discusses them, making it very clear where community members should report current issues makes it an easier experience for them. As a side benefit, it lowers costs for maintainers by reducing the amount of redirection they need to do.

  • 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.

  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

    Open source is more accessible to new contributors than ever before, in part due to the user experience improvements pushed forward by platforms such as BitBucket, GitHub, and GitLab. They provide a way to discover new repositories and view their source. This means that you can browse and understand a project before becoming deeply invested. It has the added benefit for people with resource constraints, such as disk space or network bandwidth, because you no longer have to clone an entire repository (copy the files to your computer) in order to view its contents.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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