All I wanted to do was to add a mention of Github changeset links to the MacPorts documentation.

I like contributing to free software projects. One way I pick which specific contribution to make, is that I recall something which was an obstacle for me. I come up with a change which would reduce that obstacle. I look through the project’s open source for how to make that change. Then I make a pull request, or submit a patch, which contains that change.

Sometimes, in order to make the change, I need to learn the tools or languages which that project uses for its code or documentation. That can lead to a cascade of subsidiary tasks or related changes. This is a story of that happening to a ridiculous degree, about 20 months ago.

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