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Years of writing software. Never once contributed to open source.

That changed when I helped another contributor’s MCP Gateway feature become mergeable upstream. Not writing the feature — making it fit: object-vs-string ID mismatches, rebases, waiting.

Right now: 6 open PRs (4 upstream). Zero merged. The gap between working code and mergeable code is where the real lessons live.

#OpenSource #DeveloperTools #SoftwareEngineering

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