ChrisHallquist comments on Volunteering programmer hours / discussing how to improve LessWrong's software - Less Wrong

13 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 January 2014 10:47PM

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 27 January 2014 12:02:52AM 2 points [-]

Fair enough, and I see the link for sorting by stars is here.

Should I literally just be going down the list top to bottom? Or limit myself to things that are accepted / authorized?

Comment author: gwern 27 January 2014 12:18:11AM 3 points [-]

I don't know what the accepted/authorized stuff means (if anything). Might as well start looking at the top ones and seeing what you can feasibly do.

Comment author: wmoore 28 January 2014 11:00:03PM *  1 point [-]

Great to hear you're interested in contributing Chris. The LW codebase takes a bit to get your head around so I'd certainly suggest starting with smaller bugs or small features before diving into big new features. You should definitely get in touch with us (TrikeApps) and Luke to discuss what you want to work on to make sure it's the best use of your time and your approach considers all angles.

For reference, Accepted issues are generally bugs. The Accepted status indicates they have been reviewed and acknowledged as a bug. Approved is used to indicate tickets that are approved for work (generally by Lucas). These are good candidates to work on but you should definitely coordinate with us to make sure they aren't being worked on already.