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Sep262004

What I love about open source

Bug [ 1033686 ] GImage::GImage(filename) dies on certain images
Submitted by: sascha
Date Submitted: 2004-09-23 17:45
Changed to Closed status by: vejita
Closed as of: 2004-09-26 01:14

Three days! How rad is that?

Translation for the non-software-developers out there: I found a bug in the g3d library, and reported it by filing a bug in the project's bug tracker. A developer named Corey -- not at Brown, not someone I've ever met -- identified the source of the bug, fixed it, and committed a fix, within three days of when I filed the bug.

This is an everyday thing in the land of open source, sure, but it's the first time that it's happened to me.

Try that with a fucking Microsoft library.

Thank you, Corey! Thank you, Morgan!

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