I’ve committed a few patches over the last few weeks from a possible new contributor to the Apache HTTP Server documentation effort. Today I warned him that if he keeps it up, there’s a chance that someone will propose that he be given commit access, and you never know where that can lead.

It reminded me of a day just a short time ago (ok, 12 years … ) when someone committed a few initial patches from me. And look where it took me.

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”