[threeseed]

I'm a developer of 20+ years and have no idea how to patch most open source software and have it "just work".

Software has progressed to the point where the complexity and interconnectedness is far beyond what any one developer can do. Everyone just knows a few subsections.

[Gurkenmaster]

Some projects also have terrible project layouts. I have to poke around for several minutes just to find the source folder.

[stefantalpalaru]

I just created the third, forth and fifth patches here to make vmware-modules compile and work on the 3.19.0 Linux kernel: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539972

I write Python for a living.