Ask HN: Finding contributors for open source project?

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I'm currently working on a CMS repository project (https://github.com/johnwilson/bytengine) and I was wondering how/where to get contributors who can help out or give technical advice.

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The first thing I would suggest is adding a Contributing section to the project's README. When I'm browsing through projects to see if I can help out I always check to see if the project has clear suggestions/guidelines for ways to contribute.

Second, tag issues in a way that lets people know which issues might be well suited to a new contributor jumping in (see "Good as first PR" in https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues for an example).

Thanks for taking time out to respond and thanks for the advice/link.

I'm not a Python guy, but one good thing that you've done that I wish more open source projects would do is create what looks like good documentation right off of the bat.

Thanks. Still trying to make the docs better though.

I've got to tip my hat to Flask (python) project for their docs you can tell how much effort has gone into it.

Oh and most of the code for Bytengine is written in Golang.

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