One of the best posts I've read on contributing to open source is one that Craig made 
some time ago to the Tomcat list.

* http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contributing.html

In this post, Craig describes how committers evolve from users. As people use use 
Struts, and find ways to improve it, they can contribute their improvements back to 
the community. There are several ways to make contibutions. Many people setup their 
own site, other join the SourceForge Struts site (http://struts.sf.net/), and some 
make contributions to the main distribution.

Because we consider contributing an extension of using, the "How to contribute" 
material is part of the Using page.

* http://apache.struts.org/using.html

If anyone gets the sense that we aren't pushing hard for contributions, it might be 
because we are already backlogged. There are 262 outstanding enhancement tickets, 29 
with patches.  So many that I despair at ever reviewing them all. I'm sure that many 
are duplicates, overlapping, or obsolete, but what Apache hours I have available need 
to be spent elsewhere right now. :(

-Ted.


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