contributing to smaller projects

[omicron-b]

Sometimes it is easy to mistake the software developed by a single developer or a team for a part of distribution it usually ships with. Everyone knows Firefox is developed by Mozilla and LibreOffice by The Document Foundation, but this is not always the case with other software. One example I know of is https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/ (which is a user friendly backup tool that saved my system once) that ships with Linux Mint and often is mistaken for a part of Cinnamon DE, but actually is not.

And while I understand that Contributing to FOSS means all Free and Open Source Software, not only distributions, and all software is already in the scope of the Wiki, it would be great to make a page? category? dedicated to smaller software like this, so it would not get lost among bigger projects.

[LinuxForEveryone]

I'm in 100% agreement here, and TImeshift is a great example.

The trick is how to fairly and accurately categorize these projects. -Independent Open Source Software? -Smaller OSS Projects? -etc

Would love more discussion on this.

[Owslla]

Perhaps the application level could be contributed to something like https://linuxappstore.io/ and we provide a link to that site. I noticed on the Stellarium - Appimage page it offered links to their github and transeifex pages for example. The downside it that it focuses solely on Universal Packaging versions. I'm just trying to think of ways to reduce duplicate efforts.

[omicron-b]

@Owslla your idea lead me to List of FOSS wikipedia page Although I do not know how wikipedia is moderated, and what will happen if wikipedia moderation will consider our additions unnecessary, or too narrowly focused.

For example, backup software category currently leads to "Free backup software" (note: not Open Source) which contains closed source Windows-only "Macrium Reflect" (among many Open Source options). In theory we could create a "Free and Open Source backup software" category and request them to change the link.