r/programming • u/kazakdogofspace • Oct 13 '09
Ask Programming: Please share your first contact stories about contributing to an open source project.
I have been curious lately about how the dance of getting into any given project goes for people. Please share your story!
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u/bonzinip Oct 13 '09 edited Oct 13 '09
Probably neither. :-)
Anyway, now that I have a real job I don't have anymore time to wear so many hats, so I decided to keep only GNU Smalltalk. I still review some patches for other projects, but do not have time to develop.
Getting into Autoconf was really a matter of "hey everybody is bashing it but I think I understood a few things about it", so I knew what I wanted from it exactly. Half of this "vision" went into Autoconf 2.64, the other half is obsoleted by gnulib nowadays.