There is a nice canonical document called "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" that you can point people to, who ask questions in technical communities and need

There is a nice canonical document called "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" that you can point people to, who ask questions in technical communities and need to be educated on how to do so properly: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Is there a canonical document for "How To Engage With Open Source The Smart Way"? Seems like it'd be useful to have a document like that explains these issues, that you can simply refer people to, without having to explain them every time in a one-off way.