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Discussion on: What are some blockers for you on contributing to open source projects?

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Isaac Lyman • Edited

My biggest blocker is the fact that when I get assigned to a new project at work, it always takes me a few weeks to really figure it out--where everything is, what the goals of the project are, what unwritten conventions might exist around a given piece of code, why things are the way they are. In the open source world, that's a lot of time and effort to put in for what usually ends up being a one-off contribution to someone else's project.