The idea is great but...<p>I checked out about 15+ smaller repositories with the "help wanted" labels and only one had active development.<p>Most projects had several unanswered pull-requests since 2018/2019 contributed by strangers wanting to help or issues with comments from people asking to help with no response.<p>I actually looked for one project that i could potentially help out a tiny bit, but the experience so far has been discouraging.
How practically beneficial are around the edge/minor issue contributors to projects? Between coding standards, formatting, and how long it takes for people to learn a codebase, are a bunch of new minor contributors actually all that helpful?<p>Asking as someone not meaningfully in the FOSS world, so I do not know either way.
This has been posted 6 times before, see this HN thread below if you want to read their discussion about it:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830618" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830618</a>
some of these appear to not actually have curated tasks. it lists exiv2 for example which links to an issues tag on github, but it's empty <a href="https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues?q=label%3A%22good+first+issue%22+" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues?q=label%3A%22good+firs...</a>