I Fixed a 3-year-old bug in Windows Calculator and Microsoft Doesn’t care

Re:I Fixed a 3-year-old bug in Windows Calculator and Micros... by Dhikshith12 on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:06PM (#37092568)

Please forgive me with your mighty experience, I'm young, naive, and impatient, new to the open source, and the software industry, I received a lot of criticism for this article, and I'll learn to do better and be more patient.

But if you read the article, i even begun to write the article only because i found a PR that was left unnoticed, uncommented, even by their CI system (Expected — Waiting for status to be reported) for almost a year.

It's not cool to get ghosted for a year!

Thank you : |

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Re:I Fixed a 3-year-old bug in Windows Calculator and Micros... by seba_dos1 on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:30PM (#37092891)

> It's not cool to get ghosted for a year!

And yet it's perfectly normal.

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Re:I Fixed a 3-year-old bug in Windows Calculator and Micros... by twiss on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:21PM (#37094208)

I did read your article and did look at the other PR, but to be perfectly honest it looked a bit low-effort; the justification is simply "It just makes more sense that way", and the change looks very minor. (Which, of course I don't blame the PR author because they're not obligated to do anything, but at the same time I can't blame the maintainers as much for not merging it.)

Your PR, on the other hand, looks great! The changes look well-reasoned and well-documented, though I don't know Calculator so I can't judge the code.

But, don't be discouraged, neither by the lack of response so far, nor the criticism here. Hopefully they'll merge your PR, if not, I hope you'll find some other open source project you can contribute to, or you can start your own :)

(I should've also said the positive part in my first comment, not just the negative part, apologies.)

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