Jonty WareingThe best part of open source software is being able to fix things that irritate you.
The worst part of open source software is getting constantly nerd-sniped into fixing things that irritate you
"I'll quickly patch this"
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Somehow you are now writing Rust
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pinoaffe@jonty have you seen https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing ?
@pinoaffe I have!
For many years I have been a proponent of maintaining a text file called "software_i_am_not_allowed_to_write.txt", where you write down all the things that drive you mad but would be a vast amount of work.
The problem is that this bug is really small and I could just fix it - its too small to write in the text file! Just a little bug. How long could it possibly take?
Stewart Russell@jonty Phyllis April King homage?
Marty Fouts@jonty The worst part for me was the maintainer of the software acknowledging that the bug was real but declining to accept the patch because “it doesn’t affect anyone else”.
Fluffy Kitty Cat@jonty how hard is it to do? I know a little bit of coding and it seems like good practice
Neil E. Hodges@jonty @fluffykittycat Really depends on how big the problem is and which project you're contributing to.