up-for-grabs.net

Do you remember how you looked for projects or even specific ones? I submitted pull request removing dead project and it was soon merged: https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/pull/2781 Also, they replied in https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/issues/2536... > We don't want to direct new contributors to the projects where they would feel lost or ignored. That gives a bad user experience due to which people tend to stop contributing to Open Source. I had same experiences so many times. > Do you have a solution or suggestion for this? How should we tackle this. > One way we can do this is to track the latest commit on the repo, but there could be a reason like the Repo is hard to work with and the Maintainers are reviewing PRs and Issues but there is nothing useful to be committed for a long time. This happens.

Do you remember how you looked for projects or even specific ones? I submitted pull request removing dead project and it was soon merged: https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/pull/2781 Also, they replied in https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/issues/2536... > We don't want to direct new contributors to the projects where they would feel lost or ignored. That gives a bad user experience due to which people tend to stop contributing to Open Source. I had same experiences so many times. > Do you have a solution or suggestion for this? How should we tackle this. > One way we can do this is to track the latest commit on the repo, but there could be a reason like the Repo is hard to work with and the Maintainers are reviewing PRs and Issues but there is nothing useful to be committed for a long time. This happens.

Is it? The documentation ( https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pag... ) is verbose, but that appears to be an attempt to lower the barrier of entry. Each PR to add a new project seems to be just the addition of a single .yml file describing the project and associated tags.

I'd support purging inactive projects in order to make the process easier for prospective contributors. Ideally there should be some specific rules that projects can use to see that they'd be filtered. It doesn't look like up-for-grabs upstream agrees though https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/issues/2536

They're doing client-side requests and caching pretty heavily in local storage: https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pag...