Comment by layer8
11 hours ago
You can still tell them how you did it, just not in the form of code/patches. You should be able to describe it in prose so that the maintainer understands your solution approach.
11 hours ago
You can still tell them how you did it, just not in the form of code/patches. You should be able to describe it in prose so that the maintainer understands your solution approach.
Not necessarily. I just fixed the Ladybird build process so it will successfully build on a system that uses musl instead of glibc. By far the most compact way of explaining what needed to be changed is to share the changes themselves. It is a set of very small changes to a number of individual files.
That sounds more like a new feature than a bugfix, however. That aside, I didn’t claim that it would necessarily be more compact, just that it’s possible. Any change can be described in prose, to whatever level is necessary to get the essential insights across. It’s how the ancient greeks did mathematics, they didn’t have symbols or formulas.