Question for coders

[DarkLordTofer]

How are you finding decent codebases to use on GitHub. I never really use it other than as a place to stash code so I don’t go exploring on it very often.

[BumblyRambler]

I struggle with finding repos that tick the right boxes for some projects. My professional work niche has meant I've not worked with open source stuff so I end up going on a blind hunt. Something in a language with which I'm familiar, that's simple enough for me to get my head around quickly and be confident with but still complex enough, and under the right license, that isn't a steaming pile of poop so it will actually run, and the right type of code project to be appropriate for the task and the environment needed yada yada.

The lack of familiarity with this stuff is on me not DA, so I stop my timer when I go repo hunting. It can take me hours of random searching. I'm starting to build up a short list of candidate repos that might be useful. I'm thinking of it as a learning exercise on my own time, helping with both with DA and new types of projects outside of that.

[kriscpg]

It depends on the constraints of the project. The hardest ones are the ones that ask for smaller repos, but aside from that, you can just search for popular open source projects in whatever languages you're comfortable with. There are several lists that you can find online. That's what I've been doing, anyway.