bug 729

[piranha]

my first patched bug on dreamwidth! i am way too excited about this, *snicker*, but oh, i don't care. it was the teensiest bug ever, but i did it, i set up a dreamhack, i figured out enough of mercurial (the version control software DW uses), and i found my way through the code.

this is excellent, because i got over the initial hump i have with every large project, where the project screams at me "i am HUGE and you will NEVER understand me, you'll screw things up, and crash the repo/site, and you'll prove yourself to be incompetent!". and i have no idea where to even start because it's all so complex and fits together in arcane ways, and i don't even know the programming language well, and... yeah. every large project does this to me, and has done so for 30+ years. until i start to pick at a corner, and unravel it a little, and peek carefully at the exposed guts, and start to see little tendrils of sense-making reveal themselves.

i am not allowed to put myself down because it was the teensiest bug ever.

Comments

[denise]

I've seen so many people saying "it's not the big things, it's the little tiny fixes" for why they want to come over here, so little teeny bugs are just as important :)

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I'm in awe! I think it's fabulous that you've already contributed to the project.