Marketing of Agaric: In open source free software, code rules

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 18, 2007 - 11:36am

Reviewing patches and contributing bugfixes to Drupal core helps Agaric in three ways:

This note is just to let Kathryn and Veronica know this sort of direct giving back to the community should be built into our schedules.

And to let Gus (and Dan) know the easiest way to leapfrog past me as Agaric's best-known Drupal developer ;-)

(I have done almost none of this in part because dev environments on my computer run inexplicably slowly.)

Take for instance this bug fix that needs review,

"General patch reviewing tips" on this page has the info needed to test:
http://drupal.org/patch/spotlight

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