From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T04:44:45+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I contribute to Ruby?

On 11/23/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> Giles Bowkett wrote:
> > No, I mean where to submit that change, having made it. Although I
> > suppose if you go ahead and submit it, you get all the glory (Ruby
> > contributor! wow! that must look good on a resume).
>
> Dear LORD in heavens.
>
> Makes me wonder if HR people do investigate whether "contributor"
> actually means "commit whore".

The type of companies that hire through HR people, no, they don't
check. Maybe Google's HR does, but even there I doubt it. Hiring
through HR people is a guarantee for questions like, "We need five
years of Rails experience, do you have that?"

> On a less flamey note, that change is just too silly to be in the core
> library, I don't need -yet- another "foo is a synonym for bar" in the
> documentation.

I did say it was the whiniest change ever. It might be too silly for
the core library, hell, it's probably too silly for its shirt -- so
silly it hurts -- but using "a" where I should use "an" just sets off
my inner compulsive librarian.

-- 
Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org