This is the #6 repost in a month. A few repost are ok if they don't get traction, but somewhere between 5 and 10 is the threshold of too much. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I think that it doesn't get traction because here people realize that this are not real open source contribution. This is a tutorial or a test project. (Imagine if someone else puts this as in the c.v. as a contribution to open source, the hiring team will not be happy.)
I think this could be better received if you rename it to add "tutorial" or something like that to the name/title. But I'm not sure.
Another possible improvement is to add a small technical challenging part, not only adding the name. It's difficult to get an easy to understand and easy to contribute and unrestricted project. Perhaps something like writing a program that writes the complete lyric of "One elephant went out to play. On a spider web one day." Each new contributor adds a new number. (Discourage explicitly solutions with `for`, and "smart" solutions with a complete objectfactoryfactory hierarchy. Just a bunch of printf.) You can add also make the equivalent version in different languages, but please don't post all of them here.
Bonus: Some open source projects have a page with bugs/projects/ideas that are good for first time contributors. You can try to collect them. The problem is that it is usually not very well maintained. (If it's easy enough, it's easier to fix it than to add it to the wiki page.)
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 10.3 ms ] threadI think that it doesn't get traction because here people realize that this are not real open source contribution. This is a tutorial or a test project. (Imagine if someone else puts this as in the c.v. as a contribution to open source, the hiring team will not be happy.)
I think this could be better received if you rename it to add "tutorial" or something like that to the name/title. But I'm not sure.
Another possible improvement is to add a small technical challenging part, not only adding the name. It's difficult to get an easy to understand and easy to contribute and unrestricted project. Perhaps something like writing a program that writes the complete lyric of "One elephant went out to play. On a spider web one day." Each new contributor adds a new number. (Discourage explicitly solutions with `for`, and "smart" solutions with a complete objectfactoryfactory hierarchy. Just a bunch of printf.) You can add also make the equivalent version in different languages, but please don't post all of them here.
Bonus: Some open source projects have a page with bugs/projects/ideas that are good for first time contributors. You can try to collect them. The problem is that it is usually not very well maintained. (If it's easy enough, it's easier to fix it than to add it to the wiki page.)