Re: Looking to become a new regular contributor

[James Orson <jamesaorson@gmail.com>]

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Thanks Eli

I will look at those lists a bit later

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 19:31 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: jamesaorson@gmail.com
> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 16:06:05 -0800
> >
> > I have, for a long time, been looking for a meaningfully project to
> create, but I’ve come to realize that this is seemingly what everyone is
> doing, and instead I have decided it would be more helpful to others to
> work on an existing and well respected tool (like emacs).
> >
> > On top of that, it will work to humble me as I read the code of RMS and
> others before me who made and are still making emacs what it is today.
> >
> > I intend to devote the great majority of my leisure programming time to
> emacs development, and see how that goes after a few years. I have a stable
> job and don’t see this as just some resume fodder, but just want to
> continue to improve and start to also contribute.
>
> Thank you.
>
> > Before I pursue those things myself, what are the best ways to get
> involved in emacs at the current moment? I know I can look at the open
> TODOs and bugs for emacs today and I will definitely do so, but what is
> most likely to actually provide some benefit right now? Say there was some
> large effort being worked on that EVERYTHING else is sort of being tabled
> for. I would not want to run off and do something contradictory to that
> work, etc.
>
> I suggest to subscribe to the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list and see if
> any bugs reported there are something you could investigate and try
> fixing.
>
> There's also etc/TODO, which lists some ideas for improving Emacs.
>

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