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Ever Spent Hours Looking for an Open Source Issue to Contribute To? Those Days Are Over.
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Ever Spent Hours Looking for an Open Source Issue to Contribute To? Those Days Are Over.

via Dev.toNikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)1mo ago

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Open source contributors — specifically, developers who want to contribute but don't know where to start. If you've ever searched GitHub for "good first issue," you know the problem: thousands of results, no way to tell which repos actually welcome newcomers, and no sense of whether an issue labeled "easy" will take you an hour or a week. Many "good first issues" sit in abandoned repos where no one will ever review your PR. Others are mislabeled — they require deep domain knowledge despite the friendly tag. Tools like Good First Issue , Up For Grabs , and GitHub's own search help surface these issues — but they stop at listing them. They don't tell you whether the repository behind an issue is healthy, actively maintained, or will actually review your pull request. They don't estimate how difficult the work really is beyond whatever label someone applied months ago. The open source contributor community loses p

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