Open Source Development Process

• Meritocracy

• Iterative process

• • Patch submission to relevant mailing list
  • Patch review and approval
  • Patch rewrite (very often)

• Gain trust of community leaders by repeatedly contributing useful and high quality changes.

• “Show me the code” attitude.

• Do not fork: keep your version of the code as much in sync with the upstream as possible.

• • Minimizes cost of maintenance
  • Facilitates imports from upstream
  • Good citizen of community
  • Play well with others