From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Questions about developing Emacs Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:48:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83wo91exih.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="74490"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Federico Tedin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 05 18:48:45 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1izOn7-000JGl-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:48:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54538 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1izOn6-0006a8-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1izOma-0005tx-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1izOma-0000MM-86; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1234 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1izOmZ-000223-1H; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:48:11 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Federico Tedin on Wed, 5 Feb 2020 18:40:18 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244869 Archived-At: > From: Federico Tedin > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 18:40:18 +0100 > > - Will replies to older bugs (say, 1 or 2 years old) still get noticed > by the maintainers? Yes. But if no one has anything intelligent to say, you might not see any responses, even though your replies will certainly be read and considered. > - Is there any way to find bugs that will involve more C coding? Bugs that report crashes are generally likely to lead to changes in C. There are also others, but I'm not sure how you could detect them. > - What's the best way of moving from fixing small things, onto > adding/modifying larger parts of how Emacs works? I'd suggest picking up a couple of areas of Emacs in which you are interested the most, and working on related problems. Each time you work on some problem, try to dig into the surrounding code and understand more than strictly required for fixing the problem at hand. With time, you will build expertise in those areas, and will feel more confident with more significant changes and new developments. TIA