Friday, November 27, 2009

How to ask an open source project to do something

This isn't exhaustive, but I think there are two ways to ask an open source project to do something:
  1. I want X. You should do X.
  2. I want X. How can I help do X?
I have no data, but I think that asking the second way is what makes open source actually work.

2 Comments:

At November 28, 2009 2:23 AM , Blogger kinkie said...

That's how the world should work. It's just that sometimes people in the workplace tend to forget it.

 
At November 28, 2009 2:36 AM , Blogger jml said...

I think it's more relevant in volunteer projects though.

 

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