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Baby's first patch
Jul. 18th, 2010 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livSo I was kind of an embryo dev for a long time, fixing little things in S2 and getting fu to turn my fixes into patches. I'm most proud of the first version of the Page Summary gadget and reworking custom reading page colors, including a mini-template thingy for layout makers. I decided I really ought to be making my own patches, which I viewed as graduating from embryo to baby. This turned out to be a bit of a saga, but now I've done it, I thought I'd contribute a bug write-up.
( this is really, really basic! )
After several false starts (don't worry, I won't write up the saga of my horrendous attempts to make a color theme, which I'd expected would be an easy beginner bug and turned out to have hidden complications), it took me just a couple of hours from opening the bug to submitting a patch. OK, a couple of hours for 12 lines of code is not particularly impressive, but I was trying lots of things for the first time. I hope that as my babyhood phase progresses those effort-minor bugs will actually be a minor effort!
fu to turn my fixes into patches. I'm most proud of the first version of the Page Summary gadget and reworking custom reading page colors, including a mini-template thingy for layout makers. I decided I really ought to be making my own patches, which I viewed as graduating from embryo to baby. This turned out to be a bit of a saga, but now I've done it, I thought I'd contribute a bug write-up. ( this is really, really basic! )
After several false starts (don't worry, I won't write up the saga of my horrendous attempts to make a color theme, which I'd expected would be an easy beginner bug and turned out to have hidden complications), it took me just a couple of hours from opening the bug to submitting a patch. OK, a couple of hours for 12 lines of code is not particularly impressive, but I was trying lots of things for the first time. I hope that as my babyhood phase progresses those effort-minor bugs will actually be a minor effort!
