I completely agree. How cooperative is the upstream in regards to porting it to FreeBSD? I am looking at Dart for a while and the upstream doesn't even seem to be interested enough to provide a tarball that would be possible to download without going through the gclient tools (even chrome provided that :().
It's all on Guthub, it's all normal fork and sending in PRs. They are surprisingly cooperative. And by that I mean, I've never had my patched accepted so willingly. At the same time I've received good advice on style-guides and technical issues with my patches.
For errors I don't immediately see a resolution for, I've created issues and usually that has either been picked up by the .NET-team itself or they've provided me enough feedback to work it out myself.
When submitting small patches nothing special is needed, but for bigger patches you need to sign a "contributer agreement". Which is done all online, automatically and in a matter of mouse-clicks.
The .NET-team has really done a good job here, especially considering how they said "they were really new to this (OSS thing), so please bear with us" when this whole thing was first announced.
