"Staying close to upstream"

[Rahul Sundaram]

 On 08/13/2010 09:44 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Chris Tyler wrote:
>> Thanks for reinforcing my point -- you have to work with the community.
>> Yes, you'll make some relationships along the way.
> Except it works the other way round: you only have a chance to get into the 
> community (well, SOME upstream communities; thankfully, they're not all like 
> that!) if you already have the right relationships.

New people come into Mozilla and get their patches merged all the time. 
It certainly does not hurt to know people and talk to them in a
cooperative way in any community.  Your approach has much less chance of
succeeding in either case.

Rahul