I recently got an email about a side-project, org.microformats.hCard, about the src zip being broken. Once I got that sorted out, an almost immediately followup that a 1.6 dependency snuck in there, including detailed reports.
Earlier, someone contributed XFN support for it. And, for lombok, we’ve recently received patches for netbeans and JDK7 support. The current lombok ‘hailbunny’ beta is out with netbeans support thanks to these patches (Jan Lahoda: You rock!). You can download the beta here.
Could be a coincidence, but this is the first time that the make it open source and people send you patches theory is starting to work out, and as a developer, that kind of feedback is just awesome.
So, if you are a user of an open source project and you find a bug or think of a nice feature, implement it, send a patch, and odds are you’ll get the eternal gratitude of the developer, and you’ll likely see your patch integrated into the main release.
Patches rock!
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I would love for someone to write a good tutorial on how to make a patch actually. I mean, I can fix code, but I’ve never learned the etiquette of writing patches.
BTW: new blog? since when’s that?!
Since very recently. Actually, most of the patches I receive aren’t in a form that I can just merge them into the git repo. I’m going to put up a video for ‘how to do it right’ (including forking the repo so I can just pull from your repo to the master repo), but really, any patch with enough instructions and/or binaries so the main contributors can check it on and get excited will do the trick (IMO).
Cool, looking forward to that. Btw, you need to put some more info about who you are on this blog. Always a pain when I can;t find it on the blog