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## TL; DR

Last night I suggested a change to [[!gluster]] - after I woke up,
my patch has already been incorporated - that is awesome!

## The experience

After beginning my journey with [[!gluster]] some months ago
and my recent blog about 
[[How to access gluster from multiple networks|how-to-access-gluster-from-multiple-networks]],
I have made a great experience with glusterfs yesterday:

After [mentioning that I have the same problem](http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-March/020945.html) as [何亦](http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-March/020939.html)
and [suggesting a patch](http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-March/020948.html),
I had this incredible experience:

1. Someone ([[!twitter nixpanic]] aka Niels) suggested to prepare it for inclusion
1. GlusterFS has [an organic process for development and testing](http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Simplified_dev_workflow) - seeing the patch going through this process gives me the impression someone cares about code quality
1. After creating the [bugreport](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199577), the process smoothly started
1. The patch was reviewed within hours
1. And finally merged into the master branch as well as [included for glusterfs 3.6.3](http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-March/020955.html)

The overall experience as a FOSS *contributor* can be described by a single word:

    A-W-E-S-O-M-E

I have contributed to many FOSS projects, but this experience is exceptionally great -
thanks for the help everyone and keep up the good work!

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