Even for Microsoft open-source (as in 'anyone can send patches and might get them accepted') is nothing new.
From [1], posted March 27, 2012 (and note the author!):
You can also now contribute directly to the development of the products by reviewing and sending feedback on code checkins, submitting bugs and helping us verify fixes as they are checked in, suggesting and giving feedback on new features as they are implemented, as well as by submitting code fixes or code contributions of your own. Note that all code submissions will be rigorously reviewed and tested by the ASP.NET MVC Team, and only those that meet an extremely high bar for both quality and design/roadmap appropriateness will be merged into the source.
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Sounds like .. any high profile open source project: Feel free to contribute, be aware that we might reject your work. So two years later, after opening more projects to this model, I don't think 'the sort of open source that major Microsoft products had .. been released under' is correct.
(Obviously there's a fair bit of interpretation going on. As it always is in text, unless you're fairly close to the author perhaps)
From [1], posted March 27, 2012 (and note the author!):
You can also now contribute directly to the development of the products by reviewing and sending feedback on code checkins, submitting bugs and helping us verify fixes as they are checked in, suggesting and giving feedback on new features as they are implemented, as well as by submitting code fixes or code contributions of your own. Note that all code submissions will be rigorously reviewed and tested by the ASP.NET MVC Team, and only those that meet an extremely high bar for both quality and design/roadmap appropriateness will be merged into the source.
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Sounds like .. any high profile open source project: Feel free to contribute, be aware that we might reject your work. So two years later, after opening more projects to this model, I don't think 'the sort of open source that major Microsoft products had .. been released under' is correct.
(Obviously there's a fair bit of interpretation going on. As it always is in text, unless you're fairly close to the author perhaps)
1: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/03/27/asp-net-mv...