[prog] [OT] Contributing to an open-source project

[Dan Richter]

I'm going to contribute to Plone <http://www.plone.org>, as in: write 
code that they will use. I've never done that before. Does anyone have 
the experience of jumping into the middle of an open-source project? Can 
you give me some advice on becoming productive in minimum time? I'm 
talking about things like how to dive into the code and how to relate to 
other developers.

Thanks.

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