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How to help the community (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by figurys@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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A lot of developers are helping the community by making their source code public or publishing packages to npm or something like that. Are there other ways to help? Like helping to find a bug, discussing about how to setup an application for a certain use case or anything like that? Answering questions on Stack overflow is an example but is that the best way?

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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Documentation is a big thing that's unfortunately often overlooked. It's not as sexy as adding new features or fixing elusive bugs, but it can really make or break a project for others to use.

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

And not even documentation, even just adding examples without explaining anything can be so incredibly helpful.

There's a whole bundle of tools that will never be used because its too difficult to figure out how to use them.