From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs development Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:28:34 +0800 Message-ID: <87oaon7bbx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <874mqfdipf.fsf@gmail.com> <87385zo9vr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424518162 23983 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2015 11:29:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:29:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 12:29:12 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 1YP8FB-00056d-AX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:29:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8FA-0002dB-Fm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:29:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8Ex-0002cx-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8Eu-0003Pj-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8Eu-0003Pb-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8Eo-0004vw-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:28:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.248.6.164 ([114.248.6.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:28:46 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.248.6.164 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:28:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.248.6.164 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yKIKYz2z4nnikxceeOWSzLAr8fM= 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:183349 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > Alexis writes: > >> On 2015-02-21T13:36:20+1100, Sam Auciello said: > >> SA> Hello, I am a long time user and appreciator of emacs and I am SA> >> SA> interested in contributing to it. [...] > >> The bug tracker is here: >> >> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs > > Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote a quick guide, "Welcome, New Emacs Developers", > after the Emacs code repository was converted to git, which might also > be of interest: > > * http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/ That's a good start, and you've got to draw a line someplace, but I think a nice addition to the above would be: "what Emacs versions are new contributions supposed to be compatible with," and "how to compile/test your contributions." I've embarrassed myself a few times recently, writing things that Worked For Me, and not realizing that that wasn't enough. Eric