Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

tree666 18 points 10 comments April 09, 2026
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Curious about projects where a volunteer doc writer could make some impact.

Discussion Highlights (8 comments)

kayson

Yes! I recently started maintaining https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny a self-hosted service for collecting and monitoring hard drive SMART data. Right now the docs are just a somewhat organized collection of markdown files in the repo. It would be great to have something more polished, rendered by GitHub pages, etc, but I have been prioritizing bug fixes and don't have the bandwidth (or expertise really) to improve the docs. The latest release has ~500k downloads so it's a popular project and your contribution would be a pretty significant impact.

michaelmure

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug if that's your thing.

ArekDymalski

Perhaps one of the pages gathering projects that need help will be inspiring for you, i.e.: https://up-for-grabs.net/#/filters?date=6months&labels=&tags... or https://www.codetriage.com/ ?

xipho

Come spend some time with the TaxonWorks community, docs can always use love. https://taxonworks.org .

a-fadil

If you’re interested in finance and investment tracking https://github.com/afadil/wealthfolio

grothoff

https://taler.net/ would be happy to get help.

kevinjahns

docs.yjs.dev I'm currently working on a major rewrite and it would be great to start off with great documentation! It might be interesting to explain new concepts in the field of collaborative editing (e.g. how to attribute content). Feel free to pm me at: hi@kevinjahns.de

techsystems

Just out of curiosity, what would be the difference between what you write and what AI writes?

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