On 19/10/15 16:58, Morris, Russell wrote: > I'd be happy to help out - but as above, I'm not an expert. So definitely > willing, but usefulness may be questionable unfortunately ... ;-).
That isn't too far away from where I started and got involved into the OpenVPN core dev-team. I was far from an OpenVPN expert. I had very little OpenVPN development experience but had worked on a patch for OpenVPN to solve an issue for I had with a plug-in I was working on for OpenVPN. But I took the risk of stepping up, saying "I can help" ... and some months later I had gained enough trust in the community to be one of the first gatekeepers of the newly established git repository for OpenVPN. My point is that nobody really expects anyone to be a fully experienced OpenVPN developer to get involved. Not at all. We are a community, which help each other. If you have some basic skills (for my part, I know C fairly well but by no means an expert) and interest to help ... I mean, what else can we ask for if you are willing to help out? :) Don't be afraid, take that chance and share your thoughts and ideas. Hang out on the #openvpn-devel IRC channel if you can, share your opinions on the mailing list ... review and test patches you think are valuable for OpenVPN, submit your own patches of which you believe improve OpenVPN ... that's how this open source game works. And this is exactly how Gert, Heiko, Steffan, Arne, and many many more also got involved. And here's a promo video saying pretty much the same in a cooler way: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyPIoyXJ-k> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
