How do you become a DCSS developer?

[Vajrapani]

I always thought there was some explicit process you had to go through, but from googling around there doesn't to be any info on this.

Do you just contribute patches/pull requests, and then wake up one day with an orange name, or something?

[Hellmonk]

From what I understand it's pretty close to this. Do bugfixes or other stuff that needs doing until the devs get tired of having to approve your commits. Ask around in ##crawl-dev on irc and you'll probably get more info.

[Shtopit]

Iirc the devs explained in an interview that they also put a lot of value on the way in which communication is handled.

The number one most important qualification that the developers discuss when deciding if they should add someone to the official dev team isn’t their design, art, or coding prowess. It’s their social skills. Corin: “One of the first things that will take you out of consideration is if you’re not someone who’s pleasant to work with. And so, though we are all very heterogenous in terms of our feelings about what designs are good, and about what features should be in the game, that doesn’t prevent us from working together. Because we’re just a relatively easy-going group of people.”

[Croases]

I thought you had to kill an existing dev and wear their skin until it bonded with its new host.

[njvack]

That was what I thought too, hasn't worked so far though