After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
I am a Software Engineer by trade, and I’m right now trying to learn and contribute to their code base but unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to get used to someone else’s code. Hopefully, contributions will pick up once we’ve all had some time to look at it.
I’ve been programming as a hobbyist for a decade on and off but I’ve still never contributed to any projects but I’ve long wished to. Major imposter syndrome. Would working on this be next level difficulty?
No, it wouldn’t be. The first step is honestly to get it running locally, then make sure debugging and breakpoints work, and then pick a feature you want to add or improve, use the debugger to see what code currently executes, and then hook your feature into it. Make sure to familiarize yourself with Rust syntax if you’re not already, but I think you could do it.
Basically like being at work lol. Would need to learn Rust first, though. I heard it’s complicated, but not sure what that means.
Maybe this is a good excuse for me to (apologies) shake off the Rust and contribute some. I’ve only contributed once or twice to a FOSS project, though, so I’ll need to read up a little on best practices and etiquette.
Kind of thinking the same thing, I want to learn rust, but have not gotten an excuse to start using it. Maybe dedicating 8-16 hours per 2 weeks could help me learn rust and do something more complex than writing hello world. I have some additional time in a month or so, so might as well try
I’m a professional dev who’s been doing Rust for a few years, and I just looked into their repo for the core project this morning. They’ve tagged some issues as being good for newcomers, which is helpful. I already reviewed someone’s code there to try to help.
I intend to try to pick off some issues. I like to write code, and I’d like to see this project improve.
Maybe I should learn Rust for this. I’ve never used it but otherwise I’ve got 20 years of programming experience so can probably pick it up. I’m very experienced with web development so maybe that’s a better area where I can contribute.
I’m in the same boat. I’m thinking this might be the opportunity for me to give Rust a try.
I would love to participate. I’ve been doing Rust professionally for seven years now and I understand the language very well. Too bad there is just so much work already and adding a new project feels a bit too much. I’d love to read the source one day though, maybe I find some time.
