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Fork, fix, create PR and point your repo to your fork until the PR is accepted. That's how you evolve open source projects. If everyone were to simply copy pas
by Raphmedia 9y ago
Fork, fix, create PR and point your repo to your fork until the PR is accepted.
That's how you evolve open source projects. If everyone were to simply copy paste snippets in their projects for fear of library rot, every library would rot.
- lucideer 9y agoThis is the ideal. And I have done so when I can. But you're missing a step: > Fork, understand, fix, create PR That 2nd step is more time-consuming for some dependencies than others. I'm a strong proponent for understanding how your dependencies work, but there are always limits to the depth of knowledge of the internals of every one.