firsttimersonly
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shanselman
Resources are outdated
Many resources mentioned like https://goodfirstissue.dev/ are no longer actively maintained. If the firsttimersonly project not being actively maintained or contributed to - should the web domain be redirecting to something that is being maintained? That would greatly help all the website visitors because https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ is mentioned on tons of places across the web.
Or a "Not actively maintained banner" can be put on the webpage.
PS - I really appreciate the help the project has been doing to new contributors like me since a long time.
Yeah - was just about to list this as a key resource, when I was realizing it's not maintained here. Would love it if we could get some fresh updates, or we could add some new maintainers who'd do a scrub and ensure fresh content (or at least explicitly mark possibly-unmaintained sites).
Yes, I'll volunteer if desired. 😹
Recommendations - Hey @shanselman, LMK and I'll start PR'ing
- Remove unmaintained https://goodfirstissue.dev/ paragraph.
- Remove twitter bot first_tmrs_only since it's not updating anymore (no surprise).
- Pick a couple of testimonial tweets newer than 2015 (let me know if I should look for some)
- Add a selection of other links to "Read blog posts and guides on how to [contribute to an open source project], then pick one!" para, and update it to mention "If the first few blogs don't make sense, read the next one - there are lots of people out there trying to help newcomers break into open source!"
- Add a para about good-first-issue, which is also used in a lot of places (albeit a subtly different context)
- Add links to https://github.com/topics/good-first-issue and a couple of other GitHub places where they've incorporated these kinds of tags into broader GH supported work
- Add a handful of other more recent "how to get started in OSS" sites, so that people have other content options for guides as well, ones that are vendor-neutral, friendly, and broadly applicable, like
- https://github.com/readme/guides/first-oss-contribution
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-practical-guide-to-start-opensource-contributions/
- https://www.eddiehub.org/
