Zac Bowling’s Blog

Just finished reading a thank you letter from a little project I sent a patch to, to help them with their GDI issues on Win32.

I love these little patches I write for all the little projects out there. I manage to shoot off at least two or three a week on average. It’s funny to get some of the reactions I get sometimes to my patches. Some want me to sign something about the origin of the code or to sign over copyrights, some want me to do it over in some other coding standard they use, some take what they can get because they are happy that anyone else even spent the time to look at their code and are willing to share the responsibility for it. Some patches never see the light of day, and some suffer from bit-rot because the person I contribute back to “has other plans” and redesigns the entire concept. It’s nice though. You get your name in someone’s change log, help file, about screen, or sometimes your patch gets lost in the entire mix. It’s nice though because you can go back and google for your name and see all the places you turn up later.

I recommend everyone do it… Oh and ignore those egotistical programmers that rejected your code because they want 100% perstine crap. Don’t let them break your spirit. Stick with what you know too, and know that no application has ever been written without flaws. If everyone thing was perfect, why would we need alpha and beta code and would we ever really need a 2.0 release?

Happy Valentines Day
(I know I’ll be working overtime… it’s one of those big days at Match.com, yah know… :-))

Tags: Linux, Mono & .NET, Politics

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