Post #1336080

I don't contribute to projects most of the time strictly due to the hurdles in place for contributions. if I see an issue with something, I would like to be able to properly fix it, not have to follow a multi month process to actually get it in The last project I wanted to contribute to had the following system: 1) make an account (makes sense, its a self hosted tracker) 1) verify my identity and specify what I wanted to do in a whole different project in order to get validated to be able to open issues in the tracker 1) open an issue stating that I found a problem 1) state in the issue that I was willing to fix said problem 1) agree to sign the code away if done 1) wait for response confirming that it was ok 1) fork the project 1) fix the issue on your fork 1) create test units for the project 1) submit a merge on the main project 1) wait weeks to months for the actual maintainer teams to review the fix and make suggestions/alterations 1) fix any merge conflicts that was created during the time that it took to review 1) rinse and repeat the last 2 steps until it's finally merged Luckily I had noticed that the timeframe of existing requests prior to doing it, and decided to pass on it. Don't get me wrong, a lot of those steps are necessary for proper development cycles but, it's the extra steps that are annoying. I'm looking to quickly contribute and move on. Too many steps or if the process seems like it will be a major pain in the butt = You can find and fix it yourself. Most projects if they have that I will at least open an issue for it so it's known as a problem... but some projects don't seem to want them reported, let alone fixed.