Cracking the open-source community code for drive-by developers
Jack Repenning, CTO of Collabnet, takes issue with my complaint that contributing code to open-source projects is hard. Jack’s suggestion that “while community membership requires more than ‘casual contribution,’ you shouldn’t have to ‘become a key member’” in order to play a part is fair and spot-on. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really tackle the big issue.
Most would-be open-source contributors don’t have time to become anything more than casual contributors. This means that the vast majority of potential open-source contributions remain in their silos and never make it back into the common code pool.
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