Posts tagged with 'open source'
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.
