@antirez is all of the above to an amazing extent, however redis is one of the hardest projects to contribute code to from my own experience. The community is

@antirez is all of the above to an amazing extent, however redis is one of the hardest projects to contribute code to from my own experience. The community is awesome and very friendly and helpful though, and I reckon most of my contribution to redis has been as a community member helping out others or getting involved in discussions of redis' future, which is also a great way to get involved.