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This is old news: OpenERP has changed its name and now becomes Odoo. I don’t care much about the change in the name. It’s the processes I’m interested in.

The rename was synchronized with a move from Launchpad to Github. This, I much appreciate it. I’m one of those that once the Git virus got me, I’m almost unable to work comfortably with any other Version Control tool.

I this regard I have a couple of questions:

• Will they use the “standard” Github’s pull-requests model for contributions? Probably they are longing for this kind of long-tail of contributors model to kick off now at Github. I haven’t found any “Why the move to Github” in the FAQ of the move and other sources (but again my connection is slow and I didn’t waste much time).

• Will they require some kind of a “waive” of copyrights to accept contributions?

  The model of the Plone Foundation requires this. But this foundation is non-profit unlike Odoo.

  Does this align with the company’s view of the Open Source model? I don’t know.

So, my only strategy is:

• Fork the Github repository
• Send as many PRs as I’m able to fix/improve something and hope for the best.