End of the Open Source Phase

This is the last week for the open source phase and there are a few things I want to note.

Finding a good open source was harder than expected, it’s not about the complexity of the problems (well, sometimes it is) but actually about finding an open source repository. One thing that helps a lot when trying to find an issue are the tags, most open source welcome contributors and add tags to the issues, like first good issue or beginners only, but not only that, others have a contribution guide to start with. If it’s that easy to find an issue then what could be the problem? The problem is that most of the big libraries always have people working on it, even the issues posted in hours have already someone working on it or even having the issue closed fast, and the problem with others libraries is that they are not maintained regularly.

It was a bit frustrating not being able to find another issue to work on it, from one of my mentors and some others contributors I found that getting assigned an issue isn’t necessary at all to work on it, we can always do a branch for a specified problem and then do the PR to expect it to be reviewed but at the same time part of this was be able to have feedback from the maintainer to improve our abilities when contributing.

The last Open Source I was working on was a Bounding boxes library for python, I worked before with Bounding Boxes with OpenCV for a small project before so it is interesting working on a library to make easiest to draw the boxes for a processed image so I’ll keep working on it.