First off, my apologies if this is common knowlege, but I am newish to DotNetNuke and cannot find current information about my concern. 

I am wondering how the community can make code submissions to this project.  I found a defunct cvs tree at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnn/.  I found a description of the Benevolent Dictator style OSS project with pointers to http://gotdotnetnuke.com for community code submissions.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/default.aspx reports it's being phased out.  The search on dotnetnuke doesn't seem to return results.

My question for the community is this.  How/Where do I submit patches for the Source release?  Is this still a community driven project or has it been altered to a Cathedral?

One aspect of "The Bazaar" philosophy that Eric did not discuss, mainly because I don't think it was applicable much at the time of his original publication, is that in today's litigious society and with the current state of Copyright and Patent laws here in the US, that an Open Source project needs to be very careful about the code that it lets into the project lest the community members be held liable for the use of infringing software. As has been shown in the SCO battle and the recent spats between Microsoft and Linux, it is often not the OS project itself that is at risk, but rather any deep pocketed companies and individuals that may choose to use the software.  It would not take much to quickly put the DotNetNuke project out of business and there would be little monetary gain for someone to sue us.  However the same is not true for the thousands of companies around the world who use our software.

In our discussions with our Attorneys, who are well versed in patent and copyright issues with respect to Open Source software, we were warned to ensure we had a good grasp on where the project code was coming from and if the code was enencumbered by other copyright or patent issues.  This does not mean that we don't accept code patches or larger contributions, but that we generally only do so under the terms of a Contributor's Agreement which grants us the necessary legal rights to use and modify the code without risk to ourselves or our customers.

For this reason we are very careful to make sure we know who is contributing source-code and to ensure that we have full rights to that code.  The list of contributors to DotNetNuke is probably exceeding 100 at this point, however in every case we have tried to perform some due dilligence to provide a level of protection to the community from the frivilous lawsuits that now plague Linux.  So to answer your question, I think we are neither Cathedral, nor Bazaar, but rather something in-between.