Having your pony and committing it too

• 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:

• fork https://github.com/django/django/
• git clone
• ./runtests.py –settings=test_sqlite
• Do not pass GO until tests run

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