I Pledge To Participate
There is one thing I would like to accomplish the next year and that is to contribute more to Open Source projects. I have never been very active in contributing patches, documentation or maintaining projects. It used to be because getting into it seemed as too much work. With GitHub this is no longer the case. Taking part and contributing is just so simple and easy.
How come I feel this need now to start taking more active part in the OSS community? I have spent enough time writing, tweeting a day ranting about things. This is all good, but just standing on the outside passing judgements and applying the Power Of Hindsight gets old after a while.
It is easy to be clever in writing, but what I want to do is to contribute with code, bug fixes, documentation etc instead if using all energy on writing “clever” posts. I think too much time is spent writing about what is wrong with frameworks and libs, while too little time is spent trying to contribute into making them better or writing a better alternative.
I guess what I want is to put my money where my mouth is. Less writing and complaining, more active participation. You can hold me accountable if it does not happen.