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At least dd-wrt was like that. No clue whether they are even still around and busy jerking each other off, but as a student I tried to get into porting it to an

At least dd-wrt was like that. No clue whether they are even still around and busy jerking each other off, but as a student I tried to get into porting it to another device that had a SoC that was already well supported. Made a very detailed post about what I discovered, researched, things I tried etc. Immediately got very snarky "rtfm"-like replies by regulars. A couple more (less intense) experiences like this and bullshit reasons for refusing patches and nowadays whenever I improve or extend some open source stuff I just quietly do so in a fork on github and that's it. Maybe the original maintainers discover it one day. Also saves me the hassle of trying to adhere to any coding guidelines etc. for no reason.

fencepost 7y ago
Just trying to run it always had the potential of devolving into a nightmare of "read the forums to figure out precisely which numbered build by Brainslayer you need, but don't just go with the most current because a lot of them are broken in some way."
spookthesunset 7y ago
> I just quietly do so in a fork on github and that's it That is assuming they use GitHub or a moral equivalent and it isn’t instead buried in sourceforge or god help you some dusty SVN repo. The nice thing about GitHub is it dramatically lowers the barriers to contributing to open source projects. I remember before pull requests you’d have to generate patches using arcane commands you’d copy and paste from some website. Then you’d email the diff to some mailing list and hope for the best. Pull requests are perhaps the best thing that happened to open source.