Is it bad to join open-source projects as an amateur?
- by esqew
I've thought for about six months now that I should join an open-source iPhone or iPad project to hone my skills in Objective-C, but every time I go to do it I see thousands of lines of code on huge projects that I end up convincing myself I would never understand. I always think that my commits would just end up being a hassle for project admins and more senior contributors, so I always back out at the last second.
My question essentially is, is it a hassle when an intermediately-experienced programmer joins an open-source project?