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Where can I ask for help for my Open Source projects?

Keff on November 07, 2019

Hi there! Where/how do you guys ask for help for your Open Source projects? I've been searching with no success. I've got a couple of Javascript...
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Lewis kori •

Hey look at findcollabs.com/

It's a platform for open source maintainers to look for collaborators.

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Keff •

Cool thanks, I'll check it out! That is exactly what I was looking for at first glance!

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Lewis kori •

Welcome. 👍

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Keff •

Hey, I ended up using findcollabs.com in the end, thanks for the recommendation.

Here is the project if anybody feels like checking it out: findcollabs.com/project/strif-Rrio...

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt •

Did it work?

There is an option to cross-post to dev.to as well, but this is a shame.

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Keff •

Thanks a lot man, that makes total sense! That really helps me better understand what I should explain in the intro, I will try answering those questions and add some more info.

It actually is not that dependent, but was created for it and later separated into its own repo/project, as I thought it could be useful for people, but didn't explain it in the repo.

Cheers man!

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Keff •

With weird syntax do you mean the template syntax '{message} {user.name}'? or the API itself?

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Keff •

You're right, I wanted to do it for a while, but didn't find the time to write it down.
I will try adding it this weekend!

In short, it is a string processing/formatting tool I made for my needs (string processing by segments), mostly for my other lib Loggin'JS.

I will post the intro/description here when I have it!

 
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Keff •

Ohh okay, yup that goes hand to hand with the lack of explanations and the introductory text.
They are not required functionalities needed to use the library, more like a layer on top that adds some functionality. I will add it to the explanations!

Thanks again for the help! This is one of the reasons I wanted to find some contributors, cause we developers can be blind about stuff in our projects, because we know our systems!

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Tyler V. •

You could always post a DEV Listing? Or write a detailed post about what one of your projects does and link to the repo at the beginning or end?

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Keff •

Yup, I was thinking about this, but didn't know if it was ok. I might also do that then!

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Keff •

I ended up setting up my projects on findcollabs.com, here is one of them if anybody is interested: findcollabs.com/project/strif-Rrio...

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Keff •

Can I ask what where the things that confused you or weren't clear?

 
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Keff •

I will, I've been working on it a bit. Any more suggestions would be great and PRs would be really welcomed : )

I'll let you know when I have done the intro and improved the README a bit!