Wannabe contributor frustrations

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 23:30:03 UTC, Márcio Martins 
wrote:
> My expectation was that given I followed the official 
> "tutorial" closely, everything was going to just work, instead 
> I spent about 2 hours on this and got nowhere...

It took me way more than 2 hours to grasp how this build process 
works. It wasn't until I had read through the whole source code 
actually.