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Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by happosai on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:49AM (#22954573)
Nah building is fine, just follow the steps from Debian/Ubuntu/whateverdistro . But trying to contribute is fun. By the time you've danced all the hoops to allow you to contribute, some Google employee has already refactored the code around the bug. Then you have to be fast enough to get your updated patch applied before someone else has reorganized the code again...

At some point I started wondering if indeed I'd get the fix in faster by starting to practice whiteboard interviews.

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Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by eholk on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:09PM (#22971220)
> ...some Google employee has already refactored the code around the bug. Then you have to be fast enough to get your updated patch applied before someone else has reorganized the code again...

For what it's worth, this is how it work's if you're a Google employee too.

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