Having your pony and committing it tooΒΆ

  • Jacob Burch

Basically, getting commits accepted into core django

‘Max Weber describes politics as “the slow boring of hard boards”. Open Source is the same.’

  • passion and perspective
  • be on top of things and be patient
  • confident and humble

First:

bug fix:

  • start with a test case - very important
  • test against regressions
  • not necessarily free from discussion

major contributions (and tbh, minor additions)

  • search trac
  • search django-developers
  • become familiar with the code in the area you’re changing

proposing a change

  • be humble
  • expect it to take a while
  • respect the coding style
  • have tests

Review

  • your ego is not on the line
  • humility - no really
  • you are not your code
  • patience
  • pro-active - send polite, friendly follow up messages often

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