Interacting with contributors

• Love them – they probably need it.

• Initial contribution special

  • Inevitably a terrible patch – card ...
  • Immediately respond, fix the patch, create the cws, commit it, credit them with the work.

• 2nd patch

  • send it back once – so they learn, then fix it up

• 3rd patch

  • send it back a lot – should be getting better by now
  • commit it for them

• Nth patch – crunch point

  • Maintainership or sudden Death – be careful.