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: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:10:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3rhkt6t.fsf@jane> References: <86a83x93tl.fsf@zoho.com> <871sp9my5m.fsf@jane> <86wp717e67.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500696694 26794 195.159.176.226 (22 Jul 2017 04:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 04:11:34 +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 Sat Jul 22 06:11:29 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 1dYllH-0006Nu-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:11:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYllI-0001Lb-JB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:11:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYlkl-0001LV-I4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYlki-0002OX-DF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:58678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYlki-0002No-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5367E6A71; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:10:48 +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 qEUtQ0NtJ_4s; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F07A0E6462; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:10:43 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <86wp717e67.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:113819 Archived-At: On 2017-07-21, at 22:01, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> Just my 2 cents: not necessarily, see all the >> discussion on emacs-devel about bug#21072. > > 50 cent: Don't do it. > > Half the time will be wasted with unpleasant > arguing with other people with huge egos, the > other half will be wasted trying to understand > what has been done before you even entered > the project. What I meant was an example when "fixing a bug" involved a few discussions and finally resulted in adding new functonality. Still, this particular example is way too small for a thesis IMHO, but you get the idea. And I didn't really notice people with huge egos over there. The thread is probably rather boring for non-involved people, though. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski