[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Submit patch again?

[Bert Buchholz <bertbuchholz@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:56:41PM +0200, Thue wrote:
> Ok, sorry, I was too rough. The core was: You were trying to change 
> something at the heart of the server, which would be too big a 
> mouthfull for a first patch. This was my assesment when I first saw 
> your patch. This is supported by the fact that the patch contained 
> bugs. (Which is perfectly understandable, bugs happen to the best 
> programmers when trying to make big changes.)
> 
> Rather than try to explain that (which would lead to endless 
> arguments), I decided just to ignore the mail for now.
> 
> I don't see that is accusing you of being a bad programmer. It is a 
> very tough problem you tried to solve.

Okay, that's something I can live with. This bad programmer stuff was
just one of my ideas why you might have rejected it, not a real
suspicion! In fact, I don't think of myself as a great programmer, it
just makes fun.

I think we will leave it with this, it would just have been nice to know
what exact bugs there were (some surely unsufficient :) testing here didn't
show up any), but this is nothing I can ask for, this would probably a
waste of your time.

But when you say "too big a mouthfull for a first patch", maybe you
could give me a few pointers how to start with becoming involved into a
project? Everyone started somewhen... :-)

Bert