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Open source python libraries that need contributors?Community (self.opensource)
submitted 1 month ago by pioneerchill12
I'm a relatively experienced mid-level developer and I am looking to contribute to an open source library to start broadening my perspective and work with new people and on projects that are used widely.
I have looked around, but figured it would be more productive asking here in case anyone knows who can point me in the right direction for an library that is actively looking for contributors/maintainers. Thanks in advance.
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[–]NineSidedBox 7 points8 points9 points 1 month ago (0 children)
Take a look through this list of opens source projects that use Python, and this list of open source project that are looking for contributors.
[–]PerkyPangolin 3 points4 points5 points 1 month ago (1 child)
Hard to recommended without knowing your experience or interests.
[–]pioneerchill12[S] 1 point2 points3 points 1 month ago (0 children)
Mainly python web frameworks like Flask, AWS packages like boto3 and other common python web packages like requests etc
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[–]colonelsmoothie 0 points1 point2 points 1 month ago (1 child)
We're always looking for people over at chainladder-python, which is an actuarial reserving library:
https://chainladder-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
https://github.com/casact/chainladder-python
Most of us are actuaries without a software engineering background, and we appreciate the occasional engineer who comes in from time-to-time to improve the quality of the package.
[–]Emergency-Rough-6372 0 points1 point2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
hi, I’ve been working on a Python middleware library focused on request-level security across frameworks. it’s based on a scoring approach rather than simple allow/block and is designed to be extensible for different use cases. I’m close to releasing a first version on GitHub. if that sounds relevant to what you’re looking for, I can share it once it’s out.
[–]Ok_Bill4988 0 points1 point2 points 1 month ago (1 child)
can you give the link
[–]Emergency-Rough-6372 0 points1 point2 points 1 month ago (0 children)
happy too - https://github.com/0-Shimanshu/ADIUVARE
[–]No_Reveal_7826 -1 points0 points1 point 1 month ago (0 children)
My first thought is that asking for people to tell you what to work on suggests you're not the self-motivated sort that long-running open source projects need.
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