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The problem that the author describes is certainly a real one. If you want to hack on an open source project, it is sometimes tricky to figure out how to get th
by chris_j 15y ago
The problem that the author describes is certainly a real one. If you want to hack on an open source project, it is sometimes tricky to figure out how to get the source and dependencies and then build the thing. Still, surely the actual process of learning the codebase and making changes to the code involve far far more effort for any non-trivial open source project. So you can make it easy to get started hacking the code but that's only a small part of the overall process.
- orblivion 15y agoTrue, but I guess I was thinking about basic things like crashes. Crashes tend to be among the easiest bugs to fix (you don't need to know that much about the codebase, you just need to know why there was a null pointer when it wasn't expecting one, for instance), and they're among the most annoying. This may not be the best setup for adding features. Anything in between, that's an interesting question I guess.