Several years ago I spent a few hours implementing a feature in Mozilla, and then probably 10 times that amount of time dealing with the hassle of getting my code (which I was trying to give them for free) approved and into their sources. The incident left a bitter aftertaste.
Fast forward to present day. I was just reading through some WebKit sources and noticed a typo in one of the comments. So I decided to fix the typo and submit a patch to see how painful the process is for the competing project.
Index: JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog
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--- JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog (revision 42833)
+++ JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-04-24 Rob Raguet-Schofield
+
+ Reviewed by NOBODY (OOPS!).
+
+ * wtf/CurrentTime.h:
+
2009-04-23 Mark Rowe
With great sadness and a heavy heart I switch us back from YARR to WREC in
Index: JavaScriptCore/wtf/CurrentTime.h
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--- JavaScriptCore/wtf/CurrentTime.h (revision 42833)
+++ JavaScriptCore/wtf/CurrentTime.h (working copy)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ namespace WTF {
// Returns the current system (UTC) time in seconds, starting January 1, 1970.
// Precision varies depending on a platform but usually is as good or better
- // then a millisecond.
+ // than a millisecond.
double currentTime();
} // namespace WTF
Picky? Sure. But why not?
Update: patch approved after 5 hours.
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