[PD-dev] bug when redrawing gop within gop inside a closed sub-patch

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

> obstacles to a project's growth I found to be overly protective nature
> towards one's contributions or what some would portray as inability to
> separate one's ego from the interests of the project as a whole, as then any
> discussion pertaining to it can quickly flare up into a territorial
> crapshoot where people talk but do not necessarily listen.

Ok, I don't have any code in vanilla nor extended, and if I had any, I 
wouldn't consider it an achievement. Now if only you were reading me 
accordingly...

> Likewise, improving code readability is more likely to attract 
> additional contributors. E.g. perhaps it may be a good idea to include 
> structure casting for all pertinent identifiers you've kindly demoed a 
> snippet of in your last email.

Yeah, it's all nice, but how do you get improvements like that in the 
branch(es) that you want to improve?

> I am first to admit that I am a weekend warrior when it comes to coding 
> and as such am probably not the greatest C/C++ guru on the planet.

You needn't say that. I still wanted to say that chances are you did a lot 
more with those 40 hours than just hunting bugs, so, if ever a bugfix is 
rejected or buggy or the issue becomes moot, you haven't really wasted 40 
hours on it. It's actually part of the trick to get less territorial about 
the code: no matter how much of the code gets flushed and ignored, you 
learned a lot of things that you can use somewhere else, and those hours 
will always be with you.

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