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 13:44:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2zbcwur.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mqfdipf.fsf@gmail.com> <87385zo9vr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87oaon7bbx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424519124 5185 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2015 11:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 12:45:14 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 1YP8Ui-00049T-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8Ui-0007Wt-7J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8UR-0007M7-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8UM-00007i-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:44:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:55922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP8UL-00007a-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NK400N00DOPTL00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:39:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NK400FJRDPKCHA0@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:39:20 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87oaon7bbx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:183350 Archived-At: > From: Eric Abrahamsen > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:28:34 +0800 > > > Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote a quick guide, "Welcome, New Emacs Developers", > > after the Emacs code repository was converted to git, which might also > > be of interest: > > > > * http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/ > > That's a good start, and you've got to draw a line someplace, but I > think a nice addition to the above would be: "what Emacs versions are > new contributions supposed to be compatible with," and "how to > compile/test your contributions." > > I've embarrassed myself a few times recently, writing things that Worked > For Me, and not realizing that that wasn't enough. 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. Thanks.