Over the years contributing to open source has been a mixed bag.The linux kernel was fine, the bug fix I put in was accepted almost immediately and released just fine. However lesser known tools have done a variety of bad things, the most common of which is to just ignore the bug and then close it. I have numerous times had to maintain old versions of libraries and tools due to projects refusal to fix clear bugs. I also had one project ask about converting from GPL3 to MIT license, I said no and they did it anyway so they stole my code and then used it commercially.
All in all I have had a couple of positive experiences but most of them have been mildly negative to extremely so. How well it works really depends on the maintainers and you should have a good look at the tickets and whether they get accepted and closed in a timely manner and at tickets closed by a project and how/why before you contribute or you may just be wasting your time.
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Over the years contributing to open source has been a mixed bag.The linux kernel was fine, the bug fix I put in was accepted almost immediately and released just fine. However lesser known tools have done a variety of bad things, the most common of which is to just ignore the bug and then close it. I have numerous times had to maintain old versions of libraries and tools due to projects refusal to fix clear bugs. I also had one project ask about converting from GPL3 to MIT license, I said no and they did it anyway so they stole my code and then used it commercially.
All in all I have had a couple of positive experiences but most of them have been mildly negative to extremely so. How well it works really depends on the maintainers and you should have a good look at the tickets and whether they get accepted and closed in a timely manner and at tickets closed by a project and how/why before you contribute or you may just be wasting your time.