terrahow to do open source
step 1: clone repo
step 2: read instructions
step 3: follow instructions
step 4-68: debug until instructions work
step 69: commit fixes to instructions
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Jason Galla@terraboops Step 42a: Abandon the project and roll your own inferior, but compiling solution.
Afrochemist@terraboops a month later you rinse and repeat
Nico Erfurth@terraboops @GyrosGeier step 70: realize that somebody has an active PR with the same changes which is in review for 6 months already
Simon Richter@masta @terraboops step 71: realize that "somebody" is actually you, three years ago.
Jessica Canady@terraboops Step 70: PR closed without merge, existing instructions work just fine if your environment is configured correctly and you're on a supported OS/Distribution, you must be new to OSS development, maybe you should learn the basics before you try to contribute.
(I nearly vomited writing that.)