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Overview of the contribution process
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.. image:: ./_assets/os_background.png
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Project pulse
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- Code speaks : run gource
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- How many contributors?
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- How old is the project?
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- When was the last update?
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- etc.
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Who's behind it?
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- Individuals
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- Companies
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- What's their incentive?
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Project as social groups
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- Group of friends
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- Company employees
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- Corporate driven
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- Volunteers
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Assess your approach
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- Verbose or terse?
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- Socialize or strictly professional?
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- Habits: online relationships?
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- Acknowledge the language barrier
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Engage immediately
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- Discuss with non upstream
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- Get your nick/e-mail known
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- Mingle
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Be engaged with your network
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- Ask people you know, about the project
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- Send e-mails to friends about your contributions
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- IM friends about contributions
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- Ask about their contribution experience
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- Ask if they know someone with similar experiences
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Smaller tasks
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- Sizing the task difficulty
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- Splitting a task
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- Seeking agreement on the split
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Choosing a question
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- Think about the answer
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- Find a solution that needs to be agreed upon
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- Ask the question and propose your solution
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Code of conduct
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- Be considerate
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- Be respectful
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- Be collaborative
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- When we disagree, we consult others
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- When we are unsure, we ask for help
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- Step down considerately
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- Respect the election process
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Disagree
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- Suspension of disbelief
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- Accept the rules
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- No flamewars
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- No enemies
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Understanding the conventions
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- Read the policy
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- Read the code/documentation guidelines
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- Read the actual code and the actual documentation
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- Apply them very diligently
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Explain what you do
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- Link to the blueprint
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- Link to the bug report
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- What the work does
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- Each choice made must have a rationale
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Prepare the backport
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- Apply the contribution to trunk
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- Think about backporting
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- Twist the contribution to ease backporting
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Local and upstream
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- Development/trunk version
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- Stable version
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- In house version
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Good workflow
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.. image:: ./_assets/19-01-goodworkflow.png
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Bad workflow
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.. image:: ./_assets/19-02-badworkflow.png
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Quantify the delta
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- Measure the delta with upstream
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- Compare
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- Analyze the reasons for an increased delta
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Speeding the acceptance
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- People skills
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- Diplomacy
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- Communication
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- Getting attention
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Timeframe
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- Engage daily
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- Ask for attention weekly
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- Try to get attention at least four times
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Building karma
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- While waiting for input
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- Fix the web site
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- Fix the documentation
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- Answer questions
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Parallelizing
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- Work
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- Karma missions
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- Learning about the project
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From easy to difficult
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- Answering questions
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- Contributing code/documentation
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- Contributing blueprints
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- Discussing the architecture
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- Influence the project governance
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Archive and collect
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- Log IM channels
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- Keep links to e-mail archives
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- Choose one place to gather all information
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