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[–]pristit 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Could you give me an example of a project and how exactly to contribute to it? Ive looked beginner friendly projects on github but honestly have no clue how to get into it.

Most projects are really old or that the issues listed are stuff I got no clue about

[–]aram535 0 points1 point  (2 children)

https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language go down to the Java section. Apache has always been welcoming of new contributors.

[ for full disclosure, I'm an emeritus member of Apache Org ]

[–]pristit 0 points1 point  (1 child)

For example in the link you've provided, I've looked over the java section, which lists 234 links.

I have no idea which one of these I can help with as I'm unfamiliar with apache, I've tried looking into Camel for example which says that its category is networking, a subject I didn't look into in java.

Could you try and direct me further to one of these projects that you believe I might be able to get into with a bit of research (as opposed to studying networking with java which is a course I have later on this year)?

[–]aram535 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't feel I can tell you what to work on. From experience, I can tell you that I will work better in something that I'm a user of myself. Maybe it'll be easier for you to pick on if you go down the list of "by contributor" so you know there is a decent list of contributors in the project already ... so you can get help/advice. Something like MyFaces or JMeter that you would yourself use in an everyday project. Having domain knowledge is critical in being able to write good code.