From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: publicizing Emacs contribute Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:56:30 -0600 Message-ID: <85388sip41.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> <871toge5zw.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <83388v6hsq.fsf@gnu.org> <87egsftgd5.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <85ppbymn91.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87mw7257b8.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417892215 13130 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 18:56:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:56:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 19:56:49 2014 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 1XxKXA-0001ur-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:56:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55273 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxKXA-0006MV-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxKX1-0006MM-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:56:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxKWv-0006S3-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.229]:23554 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxKWv-0006Rz-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:52777] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id A5/EF-16169-06153845; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 18:56:32 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:04:45 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.142:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=W762VHmk c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=qsnjmAS1FM_qymnZ4JEA:9 a=Fk2GR-6GAlcA:10 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 107.14.73.229 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:179204 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Contributing small patches to Emacs is easy. You report a bug, include > > the patch, and someone will look at it. > > Perhaps we should present this information prominently in places > people will see it. I think we all agree on that. The problem is to figure out what "prominent places" are appropriate. Currently, if you do a Google search for "Emacs contribute", you find: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Contributing.html The relevant section of the Emacs manual http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/CONTRIBUTE The official file (I assume these are from the last release; they are not the current git working copy.) (Is there a Free Software web search engine on the web? I feel a little guilty using Google for this.) What other "prominent places" would you suggest? Getting an article in some developer magazines would be very good, I think; people on the Ada newsgroup get very excited when an article in a developer magazine mentions Ada. I don't read any, so I don't know if there have been any Emacs related articles recently. Anybody up for writing "Emacs vs Microsoft Visual "? :). -- -- Stephe