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Once you have subscribed, you can send a message to the mailing list describing the purpose of your contribution and from there your contribution, depending on its value might be either accepted, accepted with modification, or rejected. If it is rejected, you have various outcomes:
 
Once you have subscribed, you can send a message to the mailing list describing the purpose of your contribution and from there your contribution, depending on its value might be either accepted, accepted with modification, or rejected. If it is rejected, you have various outcomes:
 
* it might be rejected for now, but you can propose it again in the future (mostly this happens when we are at a verge of doing a release)
 
* it might be rejected for now, but you can propose it again in the future (mostly this happens when we are at a verge of doing a release)
* it might be rejected for ever, it is up to you to convince part of the developer community that your contribution is worth adding.
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* it might be rejected forever, it is up to you to convince part of the developer community that your contribution is worth adding.

Revision as of 20:01, 5 April 2006

To contribute to this open source project, the best way is to first subscribe to the developer's mailing list (See the mailing lists page for more details on how to subscribe).

Once you have subscribed, you can send a message to the mailing list describing the purpose of your contribution and from there your contribution, depending on its value might be either accepted, accepted with modification, or rejected. If it is rejected, you have various outcomes:

  • it might be rejected for now, but you can propose it again in the future (mostly this happens when we are at a verge of doing a release)
  • it might be rejected forever, it is up to you to convince part of the developer community that your contribution is worth adding.