Most OSS already have hundreds of contributors and most of the core components are already built out. Only minor fixes here and there are required with almost no new features being added. I am thinking of contributing to OSS but I want my contribution to be significant in it's development. Cherry on top would be something related to microservices. So HN is there a way to identify such projects?
For a different purpose, as I like to see what people are doing in Common Lisp, I regularly go through <a href="https://github.com/search?l=Common+Lisp&o=desc&q=lisp&s=updated&type=Repositories" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search?l=Common+Lisp&o=desc&q=lisp&s=upda...</a><p>I occasionally come across a project where it's easy to see the person is furiously churning out the development of their ideas, but don't have many (if any) stars or contributors yet. And I have contributed to some that I thought were interesting, but needing attention to things in ways I happen know how to do.<p>You could probably do exactly the same thing, but of course using different search criteria to match what interests you.<p>If I search for Lisp code with microservices as the keyword, I get 6 hits, 2 of which are fairly current, one that's starting to get stale, and 3 that have not gotten any love for years. Obviously not a great example, and specific to one language that might not be yours (and seemingly unfit for the purpose), but this is just a demonstration of how I use github's search.<p>Here's that: <a href="https://github.com/search?l=Common+Lisp&o=desc&q=microservices&s=updated&type=Repositories" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search?l=Common+Lisp&o=desc&q=microservic...</a>
Wow, it's quite rare to see someone explicitly optimize for their own <i>marginal</i> impact, rather than total impact.<p>I would probably go look at areas which typically struggle to attract extremely competent developers on account of not being the hottest thing -- maybe educational work, or international development, or science research?
I can invite you to a fresh project, don't have hundreds of contributors, and need help to build core packages and extended features.<p>It's called DFlex: <a href="https://github.com/jalal246/dflex" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jalal246/dflex</a>. it's a JavaScript Project to Manipulate DOM Elements.<p>Dflex has 5 separate packages. All decoupled and part of the same project.<p>So, if you interested, let me know.<p>Edit: unfortunately, it is not related to microservices.