From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Looking to start helping out and need direction Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:08:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83wodl7qxb.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="194721"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Wayne Wallace Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 18:09:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iG3fB-000oTg-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38258 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iG3f9-0000R9-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iG3ea-0000Qt-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iG3ea-0000DU-HL; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2250 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iG3ea-0003dx-0s; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:08:32 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Wayne Wallace on Thu, 3 Oct 2019 01:15:06 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240519 Archived-At: > From: Wayne Wallace > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 01:15:06 -0700 > > I'm a newbie with Emacs and GNU/Linux but jumping in full bore because I > believe in both and want them to continue. > > I used to do C/C++/Lisp dev back in 1990s for AutoCAD when I used it full > time. Haven't touched it in a few years but willing to get back into it. > > I would consider myself a very junior self taught developer but I don't > mind learning. > > I would like to help starting with something simple and eventually > getting into contributing to more serious code. > > Let me know what you think would be a good starting point and I'll jump in and try to help. I suggest to look at etc/TODO, and try to find there something that is on the one hand minor and OTOH interests you enough to invest the effort. Then come back and ask about that task (or those tasks, if there are more than one candidate); we will then tell if they are important enough and provide more details if needed. Welcome on board!