generating a patch

[Leo J Mauler]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:58:37 -0600 Jason Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com>
writes:
> Well, I've done it. I've downloaded the source and 
> made my first set of modifications to an open source 
> product and now the maintainer would like me to 
> submit a patch back to him. Question is: how do I 
> do that? :)

Do you want to?  We've been discussing this (check the archives), and
with some confused dissent here and there, generally agree that you are
under no obligation to give code patches back to whomever you obtained
the source code from.

> Also, if you were maintaining an OSS project, would 
> you be insulted if someone submitted a patch that fixed 
> problems but also reformatted all the code to make it 
> more readable? (I removed a ton of perlisms and
> replaced them with English.)

You made code more readable?  Have you gone insane?  The National
Association for Code Obfuscation will be revoking your license to dress
stupid in public and will force you to wear a tie!

(intensely tongue-in-cheek, of course: cleaning up code is in everyone's
best interest)

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