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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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306931 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Konstantin Kharlamov writes: > On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 14:36 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > open sources projects only requires finding out their upstream URL, And usually creating an account, putting SSH keys into it, and so forth =E2= =80=A6 > in Emacs case you > also need to go read HUGE "Sending patches" section. This sounds like a writing problem: such a section should be quick to read. Do you have concrete ideas how to slim this down? Maybe with some simple examples how to send the patches. > And then if that's not enough, from what I've seen maintainers also > expect you to have read CONTRIBUTE section, which is absolutely large, > much bigger than "Sending patches". (to be fair, if you are a new > contributor, you won't know it exists because "Sending patches" has no > mention of it). Same here. I see quite a bit of explanation in the CONTRIBUTE file that makes that longer than the information a contributor really has to know. > more complicated. You see: these are complete no-brainer in 90% of projec= ts. But > every time I contribute here I have to think about such stuff which is co= mpletely > irrelevant to the changes being sent. > And how do you even get a link where to send new patch revision? I have t= wo dozens > email notifications coming to my email everyday. So I will have to search= through all > that stuff. Can this be improved with changes to debbug emails sent? Or to the debbug web interface? For a github project (to name the elefant in the room) you also have to know the URL, but there it feels easier. Can we make that easier in the existing infrastructure? 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