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"I care about perfect code and perfectness at all." "While going to projects' pages at github I looked up Issues in a hope to see some feature requests. But mo
by davidhansen 15y ago
"I care about perfect code and perfectness at all."
"While going to projects' pages at github I looked up Issues in a hope to see some feature requests. But most of issues was bug reports or pull requests. I didn't want to work on bugs, I wanted more to add new features."
This is a huge problem in open source projects, and you're not alone. Throngs of developers who get off on clean, functioning code, but then turn their backs when presented with an opportunity to replace ugly and/or broken code with something better. I don't get it. Why the hesitance to engage in the pursuit of what you profess to care about?
- goshakkk 15y ago"This is a huge problem in open source projects, and you're not alone." Yeah. And because of it I want to see some project with great Issues, or to see some idea on what to build myself. "Why the hesitance to engage in the pursuit of what you profess to care about?" Even though my English appeared to be not bad, sorry, but I didn't get this sentence. At all.
- leeHS 15y agoHe's saying that if you are a person who likes perfection, why do you not want to join projects to make bad code perfect, like debugging projects.
- goshakkk 15y agoI think it's really, really hard to dig into somebody's else undocumented & dirty code. And, I think, to start I need to add some feature, learning by the way of implementing it, about how project is organized, and thinking about how can I refactor its code, etc.