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So instead of providing one off patches here I decided it was time to actually update marlin on github..
What a nightmare!
Firstly although I can code, and use git, I am not a professional programmer, I don't do this stuff daily.
My first attempt I just created an "issue" with a solution. It was only a three line change.
So after writing a book about it... The bug report was created,
The immediate response was "submit a PR" (PR being pull request)
For a 3 line change, that is expecting a bit much for someone that doesn't do this daily. But eventually someone else did do this.
My second attempt. I created a PR.
The immediate response was "submit a issue"
Can you see the circular logic going on here?
I checked to documentation [marlinfw.org] its clearly says "If you have an open issue associated with your Pull Request" not that you require a issue
Apparently what they really want is an Issue and a PR each referencing the other... despite what the the documentation may say.
And one last insult, I wanted to also update 1.1.x and generated the PR, only to be told that I must use bugfix-1.1.x and was pointed back to the above manual
The manual does not mention 1.1.x or bugfix-1.1.x, it only mentions bugfix-2.0
So 3rd attempt is currently underway with a 3rd PR request, this time to bugfix-1.1.x
I can see why Marlin development is so slow, no one in their right mind would tolerate this bureaucracy! So they wont be attracting many new developers.
</Rant>
So instead of providing one off patches here I decided it was time to actually update marlin on github..
What a nightmare!
Firstly although I can code, and use git, I am not a professional programmer, I don't do this stuff daily.
My first attempt I just created an "issue" with a solution. It was only a three line change.
So after writing a book about it... The bug report was created,
The immediate response was "submit a PR" (PR being pull request)
For a 3 line change, that is expecting a bit much for someone that doesn't do this daily. But eventually someone else did do this.
My second attempt. I created a PR.
The immediate response was "submit a issue"
Can you see the circular logic going on here?
I checked to documentation [marlinfw.org] its clearly says "If you have an open issue associated with your Pull Request" not that you require a issue
Apparently what they really want is an Issue and a PR each referencing the other... despite what the the documentation may say.
And one last insult, I wanted to also update 1.1.x and generated the PR, only to be told that I must use bugfix-1.1.x and was pointed back to the above manual
The manual does not mention 1.1.x or bugfix-1.1.x, it only mentions bugfix-2.0
So 3rd attempt is currently underway with a 3rd PR request, this time to bugfix-1.1.x
I can see why Marlin development is so slow, no one in their right mind would tolerate this bureaucracy! So they wont be attracting many new developers.
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