This is a great initiative and one that I would to be able to be a part of but I have such a hard time coming up with things to do. I have only made a few contributions to open source projects previously and all those were cases where I was using some open source library with limitations or flaws that I had to fix in order to be able to use them in my software and where I fixed them first for me and then decided to share them back with the world. In many cases I added or modified functionality through multiple checkins that amounted to rather large pull requests. I just have a hard time seeing how I will be able to a) find anything worthwhile to contribute and b) be able to do so every day.
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This is a great initiative and one that I would to be able to be a part of but I have such a hard time coming up with things to do. I have only made a few contributions to open source projects previously and all those were cases where I was using some open source library with limitations or flaws that I had to fix in order to be able to use them in my software and where I fixed them first for me and then decided to share them back with the world. In many cases I added or modified functionality through multiple checkins that amounted to rather large pull requests. I just have a hard time seeing how I will be able to a) find anything worthwhile to contribute and b) be able to do so every day.
Here are 179 basic Linux utilities...
...some of which likely have parsing bugs which can be automatically identified with this fuzzer discussed on HN recently:http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
Also, an exciting opportunity to discover what the 'pee' and 'sponge' commands do.