From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= 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 13:46:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87d24e758d.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> <20150312113408.GB14528@thyrsus.com> <20150312114755.GA17184@apertron.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426164455 7888 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 12:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:47:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 13:47:24 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 1YW2WJ-0001Ke-QO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:47:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2WJ-0000xM-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2WF-0000xE-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2WA-0000fI-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2WA-0000fB-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YW2W7-00019H-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:47:11 +0100 Original-Received: from 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.10.128.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:47:11 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:47:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xxMja8F/Ttp+JX9yE4iexhL88kc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:183816 Archived-At: Zack Piper writes: [snip] > I shall continue learning C and/or LISP, until I feel ready, and > practice by making, potentially useful, Emacs packages. There are ways to contribute that does not require programming knowledge. Helping with bug reports is one of them. You can pick old bug 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 starts 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. This type of work is very important for any software project, requires cleverness and is very appreciated by the core developers. It also helps you to gain skills on project management and community interaction, which is a key ability that no amount of C/Lisp learning will provide. You don't need to sign the FSF papers for those tasks.