From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:39:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83h71hes7e.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16800"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jaopaulolc@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mattias =?utf-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 18:41:18 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWKac-0004Ej-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:41:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37854 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWKab-0005F9-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWKYu-0003yf-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWKYu-0002eT-CA; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:39:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=TMnUqZ12+uNNQ6iQQVVH72OeujwkdbDXgnMMfEJM5y0=; b=WR+Zu5tmhzTfqZ4QSAag muOys/7sRuTvmwl4JKe72FhrXwfoInc/0vjxyWRjajpTFlY9lW4UcYR39uqFNfKq1OxVCU9Agz3Ia Y+vo66y4Beo2wg268ytki7iqAxmdS7Kp5ldPcPs7iyl9DqGbzTMbbVYduGsE38oCjukoFqwZbXkJH KTcRUqbjNfSNye7h8BSCbqJJDNkM4oafypfNkgznJDO8VURoO+jWA0Vt2Qjlk6N+EsUNK2SY2YXpA IR2I8P5a1XZBddAGrr7nlEWm3626SnyAtbCWdIgVdR20fsvkOhTeO6/rrMDOMyQQtw835RDkVACeF EhVYOA84k9iGeQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3396 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWKYt-0004Ad-Rl; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:39:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Mattias =?utf-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= on Wed, 7 Sep 2022 22:32:40 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294992 Archived-At: > From: Mattias Engdegård > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 22:32:40 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I'd even go as far as saying that etc/TODO isn't necessarily a catalog of where new contributors should best direct their efforts. It's supposed to be. If you know of entries that shouldn't be there, and entries that should but aren't, please tell. We do want to have this file as a useful reference of developmental tasks that are of interest to us. > Why don't you think of something that you personally would like Emacs to do that it currently does not, or doesn't do well enough? Or fix something that annoys you daily in your work? Such issues are never in short supply, and your time addressing them would be well-spent. How can new contributors find such issues, when they don't know enough about Emacs, its deficiencies, its development directions, things that were tried and failed, etc.? etc/TODO is supposed to guide them.