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Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

203 points aaronbrethorst | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.396s | source

Let's match open source projects that need help with developers looking to contribute. Think of this as "Who's Hiring" but for open source - a monthly thread to surface interesting projects that could use more hands.

Please include: Project name and description (if not widely known); Tech stack; Areas needing help (DOCS, CODE, DESIGN, etc.); Level (BEGINNER-FRIENDLY if applicable); Email address or other means of contacting you.

Ground rules:

Post only if you maintain/run the project

One post per project/suite

No commercial recruitment

No thread complaints

Developers: Only reach out if you actually want to contribute.

1. memset ◴[16 Nov 24 18:52 UTC] No.42158285[source]▶
SmoothMQ: a drop-in replacement for SQS. https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq

I am looking to build 4 main things:

1. Better compatibility with SQS' different endpoints 2. Sharding: I want users to be able to add/remove a node to a cluster and have the system automatically rebalance 3. Replication

The project is written in Go, and the UI is also just uses HTML and go templates.

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2. akutlay ◴[17 Nov 24 15:21 UTC] No.42164619[source]▶
I'm interested in this but I see long lasting issues and very few PRs (last one from August 3rd). Is it because things are stable now or the project is not getting traction?