I was not intending to create a big issue. Just stated what I had learned from the experience.
When I developed my fix it was given to the 'next person up' to pass on etc.
I was told they would be uploading it to github and I was asked NOT to post it here. I thought this a little odd but was given all sorts of bs excuses like 'it would confuse people'.
We were sat waiting on it for some time, long before the patch on the pli site was posted where athoik claimed to have 'caught the flag'. erm I think I caught it long time ago back on page 17. whatever the hold up with the people 'sitting' was, it allowed athoik to post his version of the patch and he was able to bypass the enforced roadblock I was hitting. Only once his patch was released was my patch submitted by the people above. Politics? Seems to me like somebody in the chain wanted the fix to come from a different direction...
I could have solved this on the 11th when it happened. I waited but after several days not only had things not progressed beyond PID hacked, but had deteriorated to the point of hacks in ABM. The amount of time spent on that was probably more than it took me to understand the issue AND make the patch combined. Clearly there was a distinct lack of relevant skills to solve this issue. Now I know you could argue that 'these people are not in the UK' etc. That's all meaningless as capture was easily available. I personally did not need anything beyond that, and the basic knowledge I had. I mistakenly thought the effort would be appreciated and somebody will the relevant skills and knowledge to help out on this and possibly future issues would be welcomed. Instead once the fix was handed over things went very frosty - and that wasn't just the British weather!
I could have no posted the technical explanation but I wanted the information to go to the masses to help everyone, and hopefully motivate some people to look into issues like this, by showing how I got to my solution, rather than just delivering a premade instant made fix with no explanation. I failed in every respect.
When I developed my fix it was given to the 'next person up' to pass on etc.
I was told they would be uploading it to github and I was asked NOT to post it here. I thought this a little odd but was given all sorts of bs excuses like 'it would confuse people'.
We were sat waiting on it for some time, long before the patch on the pli site was posted where athoik claimed to have 'caught the flag'. erm I think I caught it long time ago back on page 17. whatever the hold up with the people 'sitting' was, it allowed athoik to post his version of the patch and he was able to bypass the enforced roadblock I was hitting. Only once his patch was released was my patch submitted by the people above. Politics? Seems to me like somebody in the chain wanted the fix to come from a different direction...
I could have solved this on the 11th when it happened. I waited but after several days not only had things not progressed beyond PID hacked, but had deteriorated to the point of hacks in ABM. The amount of time spent on that was probably more than it took me to understand the issue AND make the patch combined. Clearly there was a distinct lack of relevant skills to solve this issue. Now I know you could argue that 'these people are not in the UK' etc. That's all meaningless as capture was easily available. I personally did not need anything beyond that, and the basic knowledge I had. I mistakenly thought the effort would be appreciated and somebody will the relevant skills and knowledge to help out on this and possibly future issues would be welcomed. Instead once the fix was handed over things went very frosty - and that wasn't just the British weather!
I could have no posted the technical explanation but I wanted the information to go to the masses to help everyone, and hopefully motivate some people to look into issues like this, by showing how I got to my solution, rather than just delivering a premade instant made fix with no explanation. I failed in every respect.