From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: 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; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501197331 21852 195.159.176.226 (27 Jul 2017 23:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:15:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 01:15:28 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 1das07-0005U4-Ib for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1das0D-0004nt-98 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1darzi-0004ng-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1darzf-0004fw-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50903 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1darzf-0004e3-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1darzW-0003eO-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:14:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <86wp717e67.fsf@zoho.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113898 Archived-At: On 7/21/2017 4:01 PM, 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. My 2 cents. Learning how to deal with huge egos and understanding the culture of open source projects is valuable - certainly not a waste of time for a new engineer. I don't know whether it's thesis-worthy.