From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs development Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:27:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9ufcuw7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mqfdipf.fsf@gmail.com> <87385zo9vr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87oaon7bbx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83k2zbcwur.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3tjh2pq.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424521654 10575 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2015 12:27:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:27:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 13:27:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YP99Z-0004g6-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:27:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP99Y-0000lf-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP99L-0000lI-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:27:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP99G-0006ZQ-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:56540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP99G-0006Z9-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NK400D00FLQIR00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:27:04 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NK400DYJFX4IE10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:27:04 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87r3tjh2pq.fsf@zigzag.favinet> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183353 Archived-At: > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:24:33 +0100 > > Please look at 'CONTRIBUTE' in the repository, which is > intended to be the official "Welcome, New Emacs Developers" > write-up. If what you think should be there isn't, please > don't hesitate to propose patches. > > That file is oriented to Emacs per se. What is needed in > addition is some formalization of the relationship(s) between: > > - GNU Emacs, the source repo > - GNU Emacs, the releases > - ELPA > - other emacsen > > especially wrt lifetime and compatibility expectations. I'm not really sure I understand what these relationships are, or why are they important. > IMHO, this kind of inter-project policy-ish documentation should > live on Emacswiki. Then this is a separate issue, unrelated to newcomers to Emacs development.