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: [PATCH] What's the quickest way to contribute? Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:48:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83mw5t5cs7.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420742931 7579 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2015 18:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleh Krehel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 08 19:48:45 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 1Y9I8P-0000NR-RV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:48:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9I8P-0006i8-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9I8H-0006ca-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9I8B-0002E8-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:38735) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9I8B-0002Dx-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NHV00K00G7ECX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:48:25 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NHV00JM7G8PTM80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:48:25 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:181074 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:59:09 +0100 > From: Oleh Krehel > > I like Emacs a lot and I'd like to contribute to the development. I > have assigned the FSF Copyright and made some small contributions in > the past, but so far my contributions have been moving slower than > molasses. Thanks for your contributions, and sorry for being so slow in reacting on them. > A few questions/ possible answers follow on why this is: > > 1. My patches / bug reports are lame. Then I'd appreciate at least > some feedback pointing out the faults. I learn quickly. > > 2. I'm submitting to the wrong place, e.g. to the bug tracker instead > of the devel list or vice versa. I'd like to know the proper and > approved way to do this. > > 3. My patches / bug reports are low priority and are not worth > applying / responding to. Then please let me know the priority areas > in which contributions are more actively accepted. > > 4. The devs are swamped with bug reports and I should just wait a few > months more until my turn. I wouldn't say "swamped", but definitely busy. So: 5. Please ping after a week that you didn't see any replies for your report, and keep pinging until things move. > I could then help with the review of other people's one-liners. Please do, and thanks in advance.