Making a (small) contribution

I've finally done it: I've contributed to the open software movement. Well, let's qualify that a little bit: I've contributed a very small patch to an open software project.

As I started getting the hang of the new Drupal beta, I came across a bug; a bug bad enough that it made a major function (commenting) un-usable. First, I reported the problem. Then, after a few hours of looking closer at the code, I found where the issue was, I corrected it, and then put up a patch. Today, Drupal's lead developer applied my patch to the main source tree.

Yes, it was just a small patch in a very large codebase, but it's not too bad to start off with baby steps, right? Plus, it was nice being able to check off one of my "things" over at 43things.

Dec 15, 2005 03:40PM (43things, drupal, open source, programming)

Comments

  1. nf0 said on 15 December 2005:

    Very cool. I've often wanted todo something like this, but never end up submitting things. I should add it to my list.

  2. kv said on 16 December 2005:

    o/~ SUPERGEEEEEKKKK o/~

  3. Dries said on 16 December 2005:

    Thanks for that patch, Bill. We could use your help and hope to see more patches from you.

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