[olug] Open source project contributors.

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 20:26:30 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jason Zeisler <superztnt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone been involved in an open source project? This could have been as
> a programmer, tester, packaging, or whatever. What kinds of projects have
> you worked on? What was your experience like? I was looking at Ubuntu's
> website to see how to contribute to the project and at sourceforge.net at
> projects that are looking for contributors, but I wanted to get some insight
> before I volunteered. I have no professional experience as a developer but I
> would love to contribute. How about OLUG, are there any software projects
> going on here?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Z.
>
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1.) Post very very very small code and doc changes to make it
extremely easy for a committer to check in to the repository.  Builds
up a trust relationship with the committers.

2.) If you post code, try to follow the coding practices used in the
rest of the project.

3.) Use the sf.net monitoring forum feature to keep your head in the game.



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