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From: Christian Kruse <cjk@defunct.ch>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Development suggestions from an ENSIME developer
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:30:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874m7k5qmv.fsf@defunct.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34m7k4dot.fsf@gnus.org>

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> An open letter was posted on dar interwebs
>
> https://medium.com/@fommil/open-letter-to-the-emacs-maintainers-226cb67a961f#.1pq4ienoh

While I disagree on a lot of the premises (e.g. the email/mailing list
thing - most of the developers I know are pretty happy with email and
lists) I think he has a point: it is *very* hard to get into Emacs
coding. I tried it more than once but failed. Documentation seems very
distributed (for a look here, for b look over there, ...), a clear
step-by-step guide to get a build environment including running tests
seems to be missing. E.g. why is there no "contribute" document on the
shiny new website? Heck, I even failed to find beginner bugs in the bug
tracker.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to by grumpy, I am extremly grateful
for the hard work you people do.

Best regards,
-- 
Christian Kruse
https://wwwtech.de/about

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20 13:54 Development suggestions from an ENSIME developer Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 14:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-22 22:48   ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-23  7:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-23  9:00     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-23 19:52       ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-23 13:50     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-23 20:14     ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-25 18:34       ` Robert Cochran
2016-08-03  6:05   ` John Wiegley
2016-08-06 18:42     ` Alex Dunn
2016-07-20 14:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-07-20 14:08   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 14:12     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-07-20 14:23       ` Christian Kruse
2016-07-20 14:41         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-07-20 14:30 ` Christian Kruse [this message]
2016-07-20 14:44   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 15:02     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-20 15:07       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 15:31         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-20 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-21 18:40   ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 19:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 20:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-21 21:26         ` Christian Kruse
2016-07-21 22:04         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-07-21 20:23       ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 20:50         ` joakim
2016-07-22  6:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 10:46           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-22 11:48             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-22 13:00               ` Robert Weiner
2016-07-22 13:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 14:28                   ` Robert Weiner
2016-07-22 14:45             ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-22 13:35           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-22 14:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 14:56               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-22 15:58                 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-22 15:47           ` Phillip Lord

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