In search of projects
I’m bored… Does anybody have, or know of, interesting open source projects I might be able to contribute to?
I would be mostly interested in moderately-sized Python projects, I guess. (Although I won’t necessarily rule out other languages like Scheme and Ruby.) Also, nowadays I work mostly on Mac OS X, should that matter. If you have any suggestions, please leave them in the comments.
(So far, most of my contributions to OSS have been personal projects that I made available under an open source license. But I haven’t really contributed significantly to existing projects initiated by others… I want to fix that.)
Michal Kwiatkowski said,
November 25, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Check out Pythoscope (http://pythoscope.org/), a unit test generator. It’s written in Python. It analyzes and generates Python code, so there’s a lot of “meta” stuff to play with. We manage the project on Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/pythoscope), so that’s another place after the wiki you may want to check out. If there’s anything I can do to improve “hackability” of the project – let me know.
Dirkjan Ochtman said,
November 25, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
I work on Mercurial, which is a nicely-sized Python project. And it’s a developer tool, so you get the benefit, too.
Travis Bradshaw said,
November 25, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
I would recommend TurboGears. It’s a project with fantastic potential, a bit unrealized.
Michael Foord said,
November 25, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
If I had spare time I’d be working on PyPy…
est said,
November 25, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
Try Nodebox or Shoebot
André Roberge said,
November 25, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
What do you think of Crunchy?
Matt Wilson said,
November 26, 2008 @ 9:27 am
Hang out in #python and help novices. After a while, maybe write a few blog posts that explain stuff that novices keep tripping up on, then submit your blog posts as documentation for python.
Or write some posts on how to use WSGI middleware.
Matthew Wilkes said,
November 26, 2008 @ 10:03 am
It’s not as sexy as PyPy, but Melange needs doing.
http://code.google.com/p/soc/
It’s a webapp for GAE that will power Google Highly Open Participation contest (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/) from now on.
It’s also the first piece of code that google have produced that has been open-source since day 1.
Getting this out of the door will help literally thousands of people get involved in open source.
Orestis Markou said,
November 26, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
Make fellow developers happy every time they use their editor by helping with PySmell!
Frank Niessink said,
November 27, 2008 @ 4:11 am
If you want to work on an end-user application may I humbly suggest Task Coach (http://www.taskcoach.org)? It’s a cross-platform (including Mac OS X) task manager that supports hierarchical tasks, categories, effort tracking and more. Task Coach is developed in Python, using wxPython for the GUI.
Alex Martelli said,
November 28, 2008 @ 1:24 am
Over at sandysback.{appspot,googlecode,blogspot}.com we’re trying to put together a team to redo “I Want Sandy” — soon to be closed due to Rael Dornfest moving to Twitter — as an open source project, ideally one that can be hosted on Google App Engine so as to need no funding or monetization until and unless it’s very successful — which is one reason of interest for Python of course — though I’ve also bought the domain sandysback.com and we can point that to whatever host if we decide that another deployment solution works better [man I'd LOVE to do this with Twisted if hosting could be kept cheap enough or funded! -- and of course that'd be Python too;-)]. Anyway, we’re barely getting started but we’re definitely looking for Python-savvy volunteers!-)
Alex
has said,
November 28, 2008 @ 8:31 am
py2app could use a bit of TLC. Great tool for for anyone writing OS X apps in Python, but its .egg support needs work.