From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zack Piper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible for a 14 year old in the UK to be able to contribute to Emacs? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:51:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20150312125110.GA9771@apertron.net> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> <20150312113408.GB14528@thyrsus.com> <20150312114755.GA17184@apertron.net> <87d24e758d.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426164715 12370 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 12:51:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:51:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 13:51:40 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2aQ-00051O-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:51:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2aN-0003HF-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2aK-0003H7-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:51:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2aE-0002C6-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from apertron.net ([94.23.236.101]:38716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2aE-00025F-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from apertron.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apertron.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4531860743 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d24e758d.fsf@wanadoo.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 94.23.236.101 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183817 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 01:46:58PM +0100, =D3scar Fuentes wrote: > Zack Piper writes: >=20 > [snip] >=20 > > I shall continue learning C and/or LISP, until I feel ready, and > > practice by making, potentially useful, Emacs packages. >=20 > There are ways to contribute that does not require programming > knowledge. Helping with bug reports is one of them. You can pick old bu= g > reports and see if they still are valid (when they come with a > reproducible recipe) and search for simpler recipes for those reports > with non-trivial ones (a bug report has a "simple" recipe when it start= s > with "emacs -Q" and does not depend on installing external packages). > Checking the correctness of documentation is another instance of work > that does not require programming skills and will gain you of a solid > knowledge of Emacs' capabilities. >=20 > This type of work is very important for any software project, requires > cleverness and is very appreciated by the core developers. It also help= s > you to gain skills on project management and community interaction, > which is a key ability that no amount of C/Lisp learning will provide. >=20 > You don't need to sign the FSF papers for those tasks. >=20 >=20 Hm, sounds like something I can do in the meantime. I will take a look. Thanks! --=20 Zack Piper http://apertron.net