Reducing the barrier to contributing

[brokenhut]

It just took me three days to commit a couple of patches to [xmonad] (http://xmonad.org/) because

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   it wasn’t obvious what I should commit. My change was

Comments

[ex_robhu]

I would say you should have gone in #xmonad and asked them as they're very helpful, but I don't think that is the kind of answer you're looking for.