After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
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They probably could use more manpower to some extent but everyone here’s 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.
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.
Don’t shake it off! They need all the Iron Oxide they can get, from what I’m hearing.
Yeah don’t let fear inhibit you too much. I started contributing and everyone has been very helpful in the PRs , no one made me feel like an annoyance
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’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 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
Oh sorry to hear that :-( I feel very lucky now that it just seemed to click for me
I’m hoping to contribute to jerboa. That’s more my wheel house than rust
Thank you! Every contribution to the ecosystem is valuable :).
Saly, I have no experience in programming, but I’ll at least help with transations.
i am a noob, but i’ll try just help me when i make mistake.
Thank you for this. Finally a good reason to learn more rust 👍
Too bad it’s on a Microsoft service. It would be a nice project to try and find little things to work on otherwise.
