# Open Source Contributions: Supporting The Community

DevFeed: [Open Source Contributions: Supporting The Community](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-source-contributions-supporting-the-community-45019.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/open-source-contributions/>)

Published: 2019-07-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog on Netdata](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-netdata.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributions.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

Netdata describes how it encourages and retains contributors to its open-source distributed monitoring agent. The article focuses on making contributions easier, treating issues as valuable feedback, and understanding how developers, sysadmins, and DevOps engineers use the project.

## Source excerpt

Netdata must be doing something right when it comes to inspiring contributions. Our open-source, distributed monitoring agent has on GitHub and has seen contributions from hundreds of people: . We've even hired a handful of our contributors to work full-time on making the Netdata ecosystem even more powerful. The community is passionate about what we're building, and they're actively interested in making it work better for their particular needs.