Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
The lesson I would learn from open source is that finding people willing to do useful work is much more important than tools or project organization. While good projects strive to refine their process, my experience is that people who start out by asking project-wide tools or process changes to enable their contribution rarely turn into valuable contributors. On the other hand, people who start out by making substantive contributions within the existing process often have excellent insights into how to improve the process and tools from there. That's not to say this is universal - just what my experience has been in ~14 years of open source development on various projects.
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Regards, Maciej
P.S. My experience (with Decimal) is that the development model for Linux and HTML5 are well more open than WebKit. YMMV.
