step in and help review a few PRs
help the project triage/reproduce bugs
if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation
express your gratitude to the maintainers
make your company sponsor projects they depend on

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/112194895793007918

Daniel is the creator of cURL : https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/30/howto-backdoor-curl/

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[–] TedJ70@aussie.zone 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If the project has a community forum or chat, be active and help answer questions. That takes a lot of pressure off the dev team. I did that for 4-5 years on the Handbrake project before family commitments ate up my free time.

[–] vpklotar@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I myself am a maintainer/main developer of a project and the people that help out in the group chat are a god sent. Takes a lot of pressure out of my day.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Cool. Good suggestion.