pls send me teh codez

Since we announced that we went open source, something that we haven't done a good job of explaining is that part of being open is that we want to let ideas and code flow in both directions. We know that you're a great and intelligent community with an open source spirit and lots of great ideas and expertise and we want to help those willing and able to contribute to do so.

To recognise those that meaningfully contribute, we're introducing the Open Source Contributor award:



How can you get started?

1. Get an idea or an itch to scratch. We have an infinitely long to-do list if you need ideas; there's never a shortage of them. The biggest resource that our tiny team lacks is time, and a lot of oft-requested features are easy low-hanging fruit that just aren't in our time budget.


2. Get the code (executive nerd summary: git clone http://code.reddit.com/repo/reddit.git or fork our github repository; executive summary: tell someone else to do it).


3. Join /r/redditdev and/or hop on the mailing list and tell us your idea. We can give you an idea of feasibility and guide you through the architecture and tell you where it would go. Sorry: you can't implement a feature that punches people when you downvote them unless you're willing to market the peripherals yourself.


4. Code like the wind!

The hardest part of contributing to most open source projects is setting up and learning the environment, and reddit is no exception. The first patch is always the hardest, and if you can join us we want to hold your hand through that process to make it as painless as we can.

To jump-start the award, the first recipients are:

• JoeCoT (for writing /r/friends/comments, intended for interaction with another open source project gwibber)


• davean (for the initial version of the best sort)


• chromakode for a large number of small patches, two security fixes, and Socialite