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What is this "Contributing"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me: "What an excellent project you've got going on here. I'd love to help."

Admin 1: "This is an automated message. Please fill out this form and give us 10,000 details about yourself. Please provide evidence you're a Type S, Mark 12, Fibonacci Certified, Code Arch-magus. We will get back to you in 6-8 weeks if we notice you, but let's get real, probably never."

Admin 2: "Hey, is that a reference to Tuscany in your bio? We don't serve Italians around here. Fuck off, dipshit."

Admin 3: "This project hasn't been worked on in 18 months. I'm actually about to delete the whole codestack. But I hear there's a guy who only speaks Armenian doing something similar. Try reaching out to him."

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

About... Fuck... Over a decade ago, I was working on a Windows CE handheld and as we were coming all from Linux, we decided for the newly released QML Qt port

It was an absolute nightmare...

I found 3-4 people worldwide having the same problem with the port.

2 russian, 1 Chinese and I sadly don't remember the last one

We were all in the same forum trying to exchange with translations tools available.
Until we found out, that the original contributor made its folder structure part of the Qt build system and you needed to build a path of nearly 20 fucking folders to cross compile this shit

I'm still emotionally connected to my fellow coders, who were just as confused as I was, and I never found this situation again

But it brought me back to the early days of the internet and I really enjoyed it

Edit: as I'm getting old, it could have been more than a decade...