Working on the edge of open source development efforts can be a hair-raising experience. You are so often plugging into code that is on the bleeding edge, which has been committed to SVN an hour ago with a bunch of cool new and completely undocumented features. A person becomes an expert in the art of integration -- Integrating multiple chaotic systems together with meaningful structure to create a working unit. It is akin to a meditation exercise, where you practice in a formal structure and allow for chaos to exist and embrance its perfect nowness while maintaining strong form.
That strong form, in terms of software architecture, must be present in doing edge-work, such as mining from the here-and-now beta development efforts popping up on the internet. Many of these efforts have tremendous worth, and so you can't just pass them up!
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