From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:21 +0200 Message-ID: <871sp9my5m.fsf@jane> References: <86a83x93tl.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500662471 31450 195.159.176.226 (21 Jul 2017 18:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:41:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 20:41:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dYcrJ-0007rj-Oy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYcrP-0002x7-4N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41187) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYcqx-0002wn-4w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:40:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYcqu-0000mE-2Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:39777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYcqt-0000lm-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F0CE6A67; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ehe4dYZZfT_L; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6F6B7E6462; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:32 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <86a83x93tl.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113813 Archived-At: On 2017-07-21, at 18:01, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Mario Kraja=C4=8Di=C4=87 wrote: > >> I am student of IT from Croatia on finishing >> year for my bachelor's degree. >> >> For the graduate thesis I would like to >> contribute some open source project. >> For example it can be some bug fix. > > For a bachelor degree report, it should be more > than just a bug fix. It should be a small > module, which is to your liking from day one. > > It shouldn't be a bug fix as that would be too > small and confined, also, it would be defined > by what other people haven't done - and why? > because it is too trivial or uninteresting or > what is there already is a total mess? all red > flags. If your project is about what other > people have not done, it should be because they > haven't thought about it at all or only dared > dream about it :) Just my 2 cents: not necessarily, see all the discussion on emacs-devel about bug#21072. Best, --=20 Marcin Borkowski