We've been trying to make it easier for newcomers to contribute to The OpenPhoto Project. The approach we're taking is to identify issues and label them as "Beginner". These issues are ones which have very little probability of breaking some other component in the system.
In addition to that we're working on creating the unit test for the contributor to uncomment before checking the fix in to verify that it does in fact do what we had intended when creating the issue.
We've also set up a contribute section on the site to help. I'd really love to know what more helps new developers that want to start contributing to an open source project.
https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues?labels=Beginner...
In addition to that we're working on creating the unit test for the contributor to uncomment before checking the fix in to verify that it does in fact do what we had intended when creating the issue.
We've also set up a contribute section on the site to help. I'd really love to know what more helps new developers that want to start contributing to an open source project.
http://theopenphotoproject.org/contribute