Re: help

[Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>]

On 1/12/2023 6:43 PM, josh parson wrote:
> Hi, I'm Josh. I'm relatively new to open source development and wanted 
> to work on something I was passionate about (EMACs), I was wondering if 
> there were any small fixes/features that needed work.

The way I got started was simply by finding some things in Emacs that I 
wanted to do, but which didn't work right for me. I think it helps to 
start small like this: if you use Emacs regularly, there are probably at 
least a couple of times you've run into a situation like that. This has 
the benefit that you're starting off by writing patches that you have a 
personal stake in (because the patch will let you do something you want 
to do), which can help keep you motivated as you run into roadblocks 
learning a new codebase.

If you haven't found any issues like this, then the next thing I'd 
suggest would be to look on the Emacs bug tracker 
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/> for any open bugs related to features you use 
a lot. Just put "emacs" in for the package name under "General search", 
plus whatever other search terms you think make sense.