That hasn't been my experience at all. I mostly contribute relatively small patches to programs that I use myself and see an itch that I need to scratch. Somet

That hasn't been my experience at all. I mostly contribute relatively small patches to programs that I use myself and see an itch that I need to scratch. Sometimes it's really hard to get started, but usually the problem you want to solve is in some fairly isolated subsystem and writing a sane patch only takes an hour or two at most. Of course you sometimes step on someone's toes, but more often than not my patches just get accepted.