> I submitted my first patch to Cairo a few weeks back and depressingly it was met with tumbleweed There used to be a time (from what I've read) when free soft

> I submitted my first patch to Cairo a few weeks back and depressingly it was met with tumbleweed There used to be a time (from what I've read) when free software meant a tarball available for download every n years. Apparently, Open Office under Sun was very good at not accepting patches at all. Things are looking up though. Please don't give up. Look at the comments on previously on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051106 Now, we have things like KDE Neon with git-unstable and git-stable which basically allow end users to participate in the latest changes in KDE and now the windows/meta/super key actually does something in KDE which I wouldn't know if I was on Kubuntu.