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salemh on Dec 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Isn't Open Source A Gateway For Coders Of Colo...

You can jump right in and start writing some code.

Will it be deployed? I don't imagine the pay-off to be immediate, or self-correcting (teaching/mentoring). I can't imagine how open source is somehow a teaching/development code base for beginners.

etanazir on Dec 8, 2013 | [–]

Ever make a pull request and get some feedback on why not? Ever publish a package and respond to issues?

knowitall on Dec 8, 2013 | [–]

I've read somewhere that most open source contributors started their own projects, rather than joining existing ones.

NAFV_P on Dec 8, 2013 | [–]

Makes sense, reading someone else's code is generally harder than reading your own.

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