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Community growth: seed Discussions, add good-first-issues, purpose-tied sponsor goals, labs outreach, topics

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, github-actions, go
Domain
devtools, documentation

Research direction

Start with docs/labs.md, examples/labs/, and FUNDING.yml, then review the repository’s Discussions, issue labels, and GitHub topics. The work spans community posts, sponsor goals, outreach, documentation, and repository metadata; done means each checklist item in the issue is completed, including at least three open good first issue items.

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Description

community marketing priority: low

Value

The project has strong engineering and docs but almost no community surface yet: Discussions are enabled with 0 posts, and FUNDING.yml lists only github: [TMHSDigital] with no stated goals. A few cheap moves turn visitors into contributors and sponsors.

Suggested approach

  • Discussions: a v0.9.0 Announcements post, a pinned "Show your pipeline" thread, and a Polls thread on the next transport or format.
  • Good first issues: 3-5 scoped items, e.g. new takeover fingerprints, a new lab scenario ("Lab 6: contribute a scenario"), and completion fixes.
  • Sponsors: set GitHub Sponsors goals tied to concrete work (package-manager matrix #62, benchmark infrastructure, MCP server).
  • Labs outreach: the five labs in examples/labs/ with answer keys are rare. Add a Codespaces deep link that opens straight into lab 1, and pitch them to course authors (university security courses, TryHackMe/HTB-style content creators). CITATION.cff already supports academic use.
  • Topics: add dns-bruteforce, attack-surface-management, subdomain-takeover, dns-over-https, dns-over-tls and osint once v0.9.0 ships.

Done when

Discussions has seed posts, at least 3 open good first issue items exist, Sponsors goals are visible, the Codespaces lab link is in docs/labs.md, and topics are updated.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
1
Forks
1
Avg merge
5d 2h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

Getting set up

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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