RE: [LUG] Broken Links

[John Horne <J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk>]

On 22-Nov-00 at 14:46:28 Alex Charrett wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> I tried to make a contribution to the METAR.pm module some weeks back
> after adding a load of code to it to improve it, but never heard anything
> back from the maintainer.
> 
> Has anyone else successfully (or not) contributed to projects?
> 
If you mean to cpan modules, the no. If you mean to other Linux projects then
yes. Nothing major, just minor bug fixes, tidying things up, documentation
etc. I find that there is an aesthetic pleasant feeling in being able to
help with something to make it a 'better' product which everyone can then
use :-) Obviously there is no money in it (!) and little 'world' recognition,
but you usually get a thanks from the project maintainer and perhaps from
those who benefit from the patch, fix or whatever. I find it is also nice
because although they may be 'minor' additions that I submit, they are
usually received as gladly as any large code fix from a C/C++ expert who has
fixed a ghastly bug :-)

John.

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