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As I'm working on https://fedi.builders I was wondering what is more important to you for picking a project to potential contribute to:
Wow, already 100 votes 
Thank you!
I didn't expect so much response.
The projects listed on the website are derived from a delightful list (check https://delightful.club if you haven't already).
As such, not all feedback can make it into the final form as it stands now.
I'll discuss this with the maintainer to see how to handle it going forward.
@RyunoKi It must do something I consider important.
If it’s just for fun: first language (Scheme), then license (AGPL or GPL).
@RyunoKi (considering that it’s a free license — if your poll allows for proprietary licenses: I have no interest in contributing to those projects and the license is the first priority. Got burned once too often)
Rare exceptions apply.
@RyunoKi Language of course plays a part, in that it's less of a barrier if I know the language in question. Documentation and code structure is also important. The less time I have to spend to understand the codebase the better. Lastly is how much time I have and how much I use and depend on or enjoy the thing in question.
I'm mostly itch-driven so being able to use it and hack on it is the major requirement.
Language can be an excluding factor, but it's not a feature or a something you look for, those can be learned if needed. (Rust/Haskell/JS/PHP is a turn-off for me. zig, java, python and lisps I would also avoid)
Copyright to me is FLOSS-only licences and no CLA.
@lanodan
Itch as in itch.io?
Or as in scratching your own one?
@RyunoKi one of my better experiences contributing got me pondering exactly this. My conclusion is that you can usually tell by looking at the big tracker and seeing how new contributors have been treated in the past. Are they encouraged to contribute even if they aren't experts in the domain, perhaps even mentored? That's a good project. The other end of the spectrum would be projects which have open pull requests that sit around without ever being looked at by the author.
@RyunoKi Many people have already mentioned that the community around a project is a major factor. So some ideas (a bit hard to implement but still): there could be a filter "by types of contributions needed" (requires tracking which projects have i.e. open issues with labels "for begginers", "first contribution" etc), which ones have translation platforms (my first contribution ever was translating diaspora* strings).
@RyunoKi Maybe also Fedi projects can submit to you themselves what they need via a form or an issue to your repo. Some need frontend help like Friendica, others - community development, text, documentation, security audits, design contributions, etc.
@lightone
I want fedi.builders to be a view on fedi projects. It's better to channel ideas into delightful lists or similar.
My vision is something like https://whatcanidoformozilla.com but for Fediverse.
So I'm stumbling into this direction.
Right now, I am waiting for a PR to be merged that will clean up some erroneous formatting.
@lightone
I was thinking about it.
If it won't be part of that delightful list I'm consuming here, I could query GitHub (which hasn't been given up on by most projects yet) for additional information.
However, this being a static build I'd need to have a cronjob to have somewhat up-to-date information.
Client-side queries would result in rate limits, I suppose.
Might be an idea to build shields.io badges 
@lightone
Especially soft criteria like culture are hard to determine programmatically.
I could look for presence of certain files like CONTRIBUTE.md.
But mentoring etc is next to impossible if not done manually.
@RyunoKi Yes, my idea is hard to automate. Alas, many things in Fedi need manual labour. Even delightful lists are curated manually ;) I think a Fedi board where Fedi maintainers can post about their current needs (logo, translations, text, code contributions) is a nice thing to have. Focused calls for help would be appealing to those who might want to help but hesitate where to start. Can be published via Fedi, using special tag, then aggregated same way as search.flockingbird.social does.