> Not everything in life is about getting a golden star in your grade book. No, but being a kernel contributor could affect his job prospects in the future. O

> Not everything in life is about getting a golden star in your grade book. No, but being a kernel contributor could affect his job prospects in the future. One of the prides that I can discuss in job interviews are my contributions to upstream software stacks (mostly PHP frameworks such as Laravel and Magento). I have had a patch rewritten by a maintainer that arguably made the patch worse - that left a very sore feeling for me and I think that it was the very last patch that I sent to that particular project (Wordpress, which I am glad to be rid of).