[ckdarby]

Have you ever contributed to HaProxy? Have you ever tried committing massive alterations to major open source projects?

It isn't as simple as here's my massive rewrite, click the accept button and everything works out for the open source community.

Let me be the first to say that the level of politics, circle jerking and knowing people is ridiculous.

[polpo]

Given the good reaction to an out-of-the-blue patch from me on the HAProxy mailing list, I'd imagine that contributing even major changes to HAProxy probably would go rather well. It's one of the best open source development communities I've experienced. Welcoming, but still highly focused on quality contributions. The quality and performance of HAProxy reflects this approach.

[paulddraper]

HAProxy is exceptionally good in this regard.

[zepolen]

As someone who's contributed multiple patches to multiple open source projects, this is 100% truth.

I have >3 month old pull requests to add tests which have never been looked at - whereas someone who knows the project maintainer will get a PR looked and merged the next day.

[senko]

"Contributing to open source is hard, let's write our own and open source it instead."

[JungleGymSam]

Sounds like you're suggesting you can't use your own modified fork until your PR is accepted.