Oh the Glamour of Open Source
John Reilly
August 30, 2017
Here's how my life panned out in the early hours of Wednesday 30th September 2017:
2 amawoken by Lisette having a nightmare3 amgave up hope of getting back to sleep upstairs and headed for the sofa4 amstill not asleep and discovered a serious gap in an open source project I help out with4:30 am come up with idea for a fix4:45 am accidentally delete a repo that I and many others care about from GitHub4:50 am recover said repo from backups (sweet mercy how could I be so stupid?)4:55 am actually succeed in cloning the repo I want to hack on 5:30 am implement fix and send PR5:35 am go for a walk round the river6:30 am realise I didn't submit a test for the changed functionality6:35 am write test only to discover I can't run the test pack on Windows6:40 am add test to PR anyway so I can see test results when Travis runs on each commit.7 amdespair at the duration of my feedback loop, totally fail to get my tests to pass7:10 am stub my toe really badly on a train set Benjamin has been busily assembling beneath my feet7:11 am give in and literally beg the project owner in Paris to fix the tests for me. He takes pity on me and agrees. Possibly because I gave him emoji tulips 🌷7:12 am feel like a slight failure and profoundly tired.
Oh the glamour of open source.
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