{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/issues/1347","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/issues/1347/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/issues/1347/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/issues/1347/events","html_url":"https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/1347","id":70824250,"number":1347,"title":"Call for contributors!","user":{"login":"sebmck","id":853712,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/853712?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck","html_url":"https://github.com/sebmck","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebmck/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/labels/discussion","name":"discussion","color":"bfe5bf"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":12,"created_at":"2015-04-24T23:45:20Z","updated_at":"2015-05-01T17:27:12Z","closed_at":null,"body":"So Babel has become a pretty big beast. I'm looking for contributors. Right now contributions have been pretty [inconsistent](https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors). Don't get me wrong, I love and appreciate all contributions but at the end of the day I'm still maintaining Babel and attend to the majority of the bug fixes and new features. This can become incredibly stressful and in the interests of my personal free time and sanity I'd like for that to change.\r\n\r\n## Where can I contribute?\r\n\r\n### Documentation/Website\r\n\r\nSeriously, this is mega-important. The documentation so far has been great and has been a killer feature of Babel. There are sections that could certainly use some work and even the addition of a paragraph here or there is extremely appreciated.\r\n\r\nIf you have any free time and you see areas of the documentation that you think can be improved please submit a pull request. See the [babel.github.io](https://github.com/babel/babel.github.io) repo for the website source.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n### Work on Babel core\r\n\r\nFeel free to ping me on [gitter](https://gitter.im/babel/babel) if you have any specific internal questions. I'll be looking into doing some screencasts on the internals and/or blog posts to ease the transition into the code base for newcomers.\r\n\r\n**Note about large pull requests**\r\n\r\nPlease note that before any major contributions I'd love if an issue was open prior discussing what it is you want to do. There's nothing worse than having to turn down a PR if it could have been avoided prior to all the effort being put in.\r\n\r\n#### Optimisations\r\n\r\nThis is an area that hasn't really been given much love since @gaearon did some V8 optimisations.\r\n\r\nThe [code generator](https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/master/src/babel/generation) is an area that needs a lot of work, it takes exponentially longer the larger the source file is, this is crap. Files that are megabytes or hundreds of kilobytes should not take a million years to generate. This will be especially important moving forward as Babel becomes a more general JavaScript transformer.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n### Respond to issues\r\n\r\nResponding to issues is another extremely effective way to help out. I've been trying to keep support and questions out of [GitHub issues](https://github.com/babel/babel/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=see+the+readme), even though the README is literally 3 lines, some people don't seem to read it. Pointing these people in the right direction (eg. to the gitter, website repo, StackOverflow etc) is extremely appreciated.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n### Answer questions on [gitter](https://gitter.im/babel/babel)\r\n\r\nBabel has an incredibly active [gitter room](https://gitter.im/babel/babel). Gitter has an [IRC bridge](https://irc.gitter.im/) as well as a range of [apps](https://gitter.im/apps) which makes idling and answering questions super easy.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n### Anything else!\r\n\r\nSeriously, **any** contributions are appreciated.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nThank you in advance to anyone who helps out!\r\n\r\n:nail_care: :sparkles: "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/issues/comments/98182854","html_url":"https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/1347#issuecomment-98182854","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/babel/babel/issues/1347","id":98182854,"user":{"login":"lukescott","id":486224,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/486224?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott","html_url":"https://github.com/lukescott","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukescott/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-01T17:27:12Z","updated_at":"2015-05-01T17:27:12Z","body":"@sebmck, first off I want to say you've done an amazing job. It's rare to see a project with such a low open to close issue ratio. Currently 20 open issues out of 1,150. That is 1% of the total issues. That is amazing! Many well maintained projects with several contributors are around 20%. And you do this in your free time!? Dude, you are a rock star! I can't express enough the appreciation I have for this project!\r\n\r\nMost of what I've contributed thus far has impacted me directly with a work project. I don't have much in the free time department yet, but I want to contribute in any way that I can."}}