Yeah, I do. Then and when I have time and find a need. That is what FOSS permits. It provides software which I can use and when it doesn't work as I need, I can patch it to do that, and I'm good to go. Now, if I write that patch with the general user experience in mind and abide by a given projects requirements, I PR it. I'm losing count, but I have successful PRs to Tendenci, Django, puddletag, in relatively recent times and probably some more projects longer term I'd have to browse my own GitHub repo for inspiration to remember ;-).
But I admit I'm self centred. As I'm not being paid for it, I do this kind of work when my passion projects demand it, and I usually test the PR waters on any project with a small change before I do anything bigger. Try fixing a typo, for example, or improve the README. I call it testing the PR waters. Is anyone there? Are they triaging? Are the merging PRs? Because for better or for worse pick a random repository and it will be anywhere between supremely active and welcoming fo contributions, to dead as a dodo with nobody at the wheel anymore and anywhere between (the clasic mid-ground being, fairly active but the ratio of issues filed to people volunteering time to triage and act on them is poor and there's a large backlog of untouched PRs).
That's a good point about testing the water. In a lot of cases there are maintainers that don't have the time to focus on their open source projects because they don't get paid for it and have their own jobs to focus on. So, your PR gets lost with time.
It seems like you've contributed to cool repositories that's nice!
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Yeah, I do. Then and when I have time and find a need. That is what FOSS permits. It provides software which I can use and when it doesn't work as I need, I can patch it to do that, and I'm good to go. Now, if I write that patch with the general user experience in mind and abide by a given projects requirements, I PR it. I'm losing count, but I have successful PRs to Tendenci, Django, puddletag, in relatively recent times and probably some more projects longer term I'd have to browse my own GitHub repo for inspiration to remember ;-).
But I admit I'm self centred. As I'm not being paid for it, I do this kind of work when my passion projects demand it, and I usually test the PR waters on any project with a small change before I do anything bigger. Try fixing a typo, for example, or improve the README. I call it testing the PR waters. Is anyone there? Are they triaging? Are the merging PRs? Because for better or for worse pick a random repository and it will be anywhere between supremely active and welcoming fo contributions, to dead as a dodo with nobody at the wheel anymore and anywhere between (the clasic mid-ground being, fairly active but the ratio of issues filed to people volunteering time to triage and act on them is poor and there's a large backlog of untouched PRs).
This is cute, I had forgotten I did this:
firstpr.me/#bernd-wechner
That's a good point about testing the water. In a lot of cases there are maintainers that don't have the time to focus on their open source projects because they don't get paid for it and have their own jobs to focus on. So, your PR gets lost with time.
It seems like you've contributed to cool repositories that's nice!