Does this still exist? I thought it has a horrible reputation where inexperienced people produce a high quantity of low quality contributions, cause unbearable workload to maintainer and a lot of anger.
Yes, contributing should be encoraged, but contributing a lot in a short period of time is absolutely the wrong incentive for newcomers. You need to lurk around a longer time, following the mailing list, chat, committed changes of a project carefully before starting to contribute. Replying the questions might be better first step than sending in changes.
Yes, contributing should be encoraged, but contributing a lot in a short period of time is absolutely the wrong incentive for newcomers. You need to lurk around a longer time, following the mailing list, chat, committed changes of a project carefully before starting to contribute. Replying the questions might be better first step than sending in changes.