Hi everyone,
I’m a software engineer who’s fairly new to the field, but I’ve recently developed a strong interest in the OpenRPA open-source platform. I’d love to start contributing to the project by implementing small features or improvements.
Could anyone point me in the right direction — for example, issues that need attention, areas where help is welcome, or any contributor guidelines?
Thanks a lot for your time and for maintaining such a great project!
Hey @luongminhduy,
Bug fixes or other types of help are always welcome for all of our Git repositories. You can find issues and feature requests people have reported in Issues and feature requests.
Overall, the general problem is usability; people do not find it intuitive to use, so any updates to the UI that can help beginners are very welcome.
One of the most annoying things I found lately is when using OpenRPA on a virtual machine. It will often hang for a long time and then throw an error every time you copy an activity. I have never gotten around to figuring out why that is.
Another common thing is that people who want to use Python want to use different versions. Since Python is currently “bundled” with generic scripting support, it’s hard to give people an option. If we could split up the scripting module from Python and then add multiple packages with different versions of Python, I think that would make a lot of people happy.
But generally, the best approach is to try and use OpenRPA, see what issues you run into, and then try to fix those.