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Re:The Battle for Wesnoth needs help by Sir_Cmpwn on Saturday July 25, 2015 @10:37AM (#9947680)
"I'm not interested in that kind of work" is a fair answer, but it seems pretty rude to dismiss it as an ugly hacky legacy code base without reviewing it first.
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Re:The Battle for Wesnoth needs help by throwaway999777 on Saturday July 25, 2015 @11:09AM (#9947773)
Rude like asking someone who has disposable income why they aren't donating to a specific cause? Hmm.
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Re:The Battle for Wesnoth needs help by ObviousScience on Saturday July 25, 2015 @11:02AM (#9947752)
For the record, I looked at the Wesnoth codebase in college, so my opinions are outdated (by 5+ years) but not unfounded.

Rather, I'm merely repeating why I didn't help then, instead of particularly why now, which is a much more boring "I'm just busy".

I suppose it's possible the codebase has changed so much in those years that the answers are no longer relevant, but they would be the only open source project (not sponsored by a corporation) I'm aware of that happening in.

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Re:The Battle for Wesnoth needs help by angersock on Saturday July 25, 2015 @01:13PM (#9948213)
It's an old C++ codebase.

By near definition, it's ugly hacky legacy code.

That's just the nature of these things.

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