Learning: Contributing to the community

Question: When should I contribute back to the community?

After reaching a solution or milestone, I often have seen others ask this this question and use these answers to educate when to contribution back comments, documentation or source code to the community.

After reaching a solution, ask yourself if this solution returned back to the community as a contribution would ...

  1. Resolve a failing of the default product or configuration
  2. Be of use found useful by another in a similar situation
  3. Represent a unique response to a general need