From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More metaproblem Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:17:02 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87k325ozfl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> <871toge5zw.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <83388v6hsq.fsf@gnu.org> <87egsftgd5.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <87a932qq03.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87wq65jr0d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417861064 12436 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 10:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:17:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 11:17:39 2014 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 1XxCQk-0005Kp-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:17:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCQj-0003LP-NA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCQS-0003LI-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCQO-0005dE-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCQO-0005cK-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:17:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCQK-00058a-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f51fab.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.245.31.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f51fab.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:17:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f51fab.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HS7d+ixcT9z1n1SZLuy95i0YKtU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:179131 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Phillip Lord writes: > > > > make it easy for new developers to come on board: > > > > > > http://subversion.apache.org/contributing.html > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers/ > > > A nicer example is here... > > > > http://orgmode.org/ > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html > > None of those examples are particularly relevant. Emacs, despite > appearances, is not an app. Rather, it is a platform. And it is in > the forefront of the free software movement, which at least the first > two of those projects cannot claim. > > Emacs's requirements for contribution, therefore, are likely to be > rather different. LilyPond has a whole "Contributor's Guide" , of course written in Texinfo like all of the documentation. Contributing to the documentation is covered in . This includes a primer of the basic Texinfo commands used in its documentation. -- David Kastrup