Hey dear Rubyists,

I’m Tëma, maintainer of Stoplight - a Ruby circuit breaker library that helps protect cross-service communication, used by projects like Mastodon.

I imagine it’s getting harder for junior developers to gain real experience now that AI-assisted coding is everywhere. This post is aimed mostly at people early in their careers.

I’d like to invite you to contribute to Stoplight - learn its internals and take a small task. To help with that, I’ve prepared a number of issues marked “good first issue”: they’re small, well-described, and list all the touchpoints you’ll likely need.

What you’ll get? Real experience working on an open-source project, and a learning opportunity. If you get stuck, don’t hesitate to drop a comment on the PR - we’ll try to help. I can’t offer full mentoring, but a reasonable amount of help is there if you need it.

What’s in it for us? If we end up with one or two new contributors by the end of this, we’ll consider it a win.

Interested? Come check out our issues board: https://github.com/bolshakov/stoplight/issues