Is there a community/site that organises and lists open source projects?
I want to get into working on open source projects but I have found it difficult to find the projects themselves.
I’d preferably like to be able to filter by project type, tech stack, state of development, active users, and active developers.
Is this an open source project in itself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can I ask why you wouldn’t recommend it? I’m open to the possibility that I’m missing something but imo exposure and attention would often be a big hurdle when it comes to open source projects.
Having a repository that lists and describes them doesn’t feel like it could be a bad thing to me
I believe what they might mean is if you don’t personally use a project, you might not be as committed/passionate about it as someone who uses the software in their daily life and cares about it as a user.
So it’s not about finding one with lots of users and dropping in there if it is software you don’t care about.
If you are just getting into using open source software though and have yet to find any that are important to you, then you can usually find lists of open source alternatives (from a user perspective) with a search fairly easily to get to better know what is out there and what you might be most interested in. (And lists like that for people to find software like that are generally helpful, I found lots of tools I wouldn’t have otherwise known about through peoples collections of favourites/alternatives/etc.!)
That’s a reasonable stance and I do agree.
I was about to say “but what if I’m just not yet using a project that I would otherwise be passionate about because I don’t know it exists”, but you’ve basically gone over that in the rest of your comment. So thank you
Yup, you explained it much better than me!
Here you go: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/trixie/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Why are you trying to get me to download whatever that file is?
You said you wanted a list of open source project, this is a list of open source projects.
It is a downloadable file. How often do you trust strangers that say “Here you go” with no actual context. I’m not trying to be mean, but seriously put yourself in my shoes. Would you download that file?
If you’ve never heard of debian, maybe you need to do a bit more research about the open source world.
Yes, getting into the open source world is basically the point of my whole post isn’t it? And you didn’t answer my question
@SomethingBlack
https://idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt/
https://idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch/
A wonderful example of gatekeeping. Because I don’t have this particular piece of inside knowledge I get downvotes. This is literally my first step into the world of open source, a community I had come to believe was welcoming.
This is beyond a joke. If there weren’t other people legitimately engaging with my question in good faith, I’d be well and truly put off of working with you people.