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> From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:38:00 +0200
> 
> I've submitted several patches to Emacs.  Because I don't do it very
> often, I tend to forget the details in CONTRIBUTE.  Because I'm lazy,
> I'm not reading CONTRIBUTE before each new contribution.  As a result,
> my patches are not good enough and reviewers have to spend time telling
> me how to do things.  I don't think reviewers should spend their
> valuable time checking for details that can be checked by a machine.
> 
> These checks could be done either (by order of preference):

I suggest to file a feature-request bug report with these proposals.

Thanks.