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From: xfq <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: GNU Emacs Contributing Guide
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:05:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAF+z6HQWpoLpV97WTqGs3ApVNydi2-NZi73=vPMAH-_jzb=wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

From time to time, questions about contributing to Emacs appears on this
list.  Examples are:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2001-11/msg01087.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-03/msg00750.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-07/msg00910.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00631.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-04/msg00077.html

And Stafan said that there is not a good welcome guide.[fn:2] So I wrote
a welcome guide[fn:1] to reduce this kind of questions and give
potential contributors a map on it.  Many ideas in this guide are from
etc/CONTRIBUTE and admin/notes.

The question now is, what is the future of this guide?  I have some
thoughts:
a) Continue maintaining this guide by myself;
b) Register a new project on Savannah;
c) Integrate in into Emacs website and let it maintained by Emacs Dev;
d) Convert it to Oddmuse text formatting rules and create a page on
Emacs Wiki;
e) Convert in to Texinfo (using ox-texinfo.el) format, and make it an
Emacs manual (or a node of an Emacs manual).

Maybe there are some other ideas, any suggestions?

Footnotes:

[fn:1] http://xfq.yuyii.com/contribute.html

[fn:2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-04/msg00118.html

--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/



             reply	other threads:[~2013-04-22 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-22 13:05 xfq [this message]
2013-04-22 16:30 ` GNU Emacs Contributing Guide Karl Fogel
2013-04-22 16:35   ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-22 16:54     ` Integrating new "GNU Emacs Contributing Guide" into Emacs web pages Karl Fogel
2013-04-22 17:09       ` Bastien
2013-04-22 17:13         ` Karl Fogel
2013-04-22 17:15           ` Bastien
2013-04-22 22:38           ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-22 17:44       ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-22 18:13         ` Karl Fogel
2013-04-22 22:51           ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-23  1:00             ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-23  3:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-23  3:32       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-23  4:37         ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-23  4:49           ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-22 16:51   ` GNU Emacs Contributing Guide Drew Adams

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