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What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?

Posted by Soulskill on from the does-soda-count-as-a-tool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a free software developer; I maintain one relatively simple project written in C, targeted at end users, but I feel that I could contribute something more to the FLOSS community than my project. Instead of focusing on another project targeted at end users, I thought that I could spend my time working on something FLOSS developers need ('Developers, developers, developers, developers!'). The question is: what more do FLOSS developers need from existing development tools? What would attract new developers to existing FLOSS development tools? Which existing development tools need more attention? I can contribute code in C, Python and bash, but I can also write documentation, do testing and translate to my native language. Any hints?"

6 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    A dentists chair and some teeth?

    (bad joke i know)

  2. Add Emacs Lisp to your skills by sznupi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because we need someone to finally give us proper editor on top of the OS we use.

    --
    One that hath name thou can not otter
  3. Re:Editors and Debuggers by MrMr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clippy

  4. Re:Editors and Debuggers by ae1294 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see you are programing a privilege escalation exploit, would you like help with that?

  5. Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux by Splab · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have to ask myself, did the poster think that after quoting and highlighting a particular thing from the original post, we still wouldn't understannd that they thought it was an important part?

    Seriously, the "THIS" meme has to die, and I don't care how ugly it gets or how loud it wails, as long as I get to say "I am thankful for its end." Next time, I'm using mod points.

    This!

  6. Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux by mmclean · · Score: 2, Funny

    This +1