From: Matthew Wood <doowttam@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Contributing
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:57:46 -0600 [thread overview]
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Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:
> Matthew Wood <doowttam@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks, I'll check out the bug list and some of the bigger packages I
> > rely on, too.
>
> > More information: I'm a web developer working on Linux and primarily
> > working in Perl, Python, Javascript, stuff like that. Probably not
> > anything directly applicable, unfortunately.
>
> If you are in to PHP, then there is a "rumour" that Emacs lacks good
> support for PHP. May be you can try building one...
>
> Interestingly, there is no Lisp...
>
> 1. Pick up some Elisp and CL. Emacs comes with the following info
> manuals.
>
> * Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr). A simple introduction to Emacs
> Lisp programming.
>
> * CL: (cl). Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp.
>
> 2. Elisp cookbook is a good resource.
> http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispCookbook
>
> 3. For a quick list of good-to-know APIs see
>
> http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp_Cheat_Sheet
>
> The page is badly formatted but good.
>
> 4. Build Emacs from Bzr trunk and use it for your day to day use.
> Sooner or later you may run in to some issues and you can take that
> opportunity to complain.
>
> http://emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs
>
>
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jambunathan K
> > <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Matthew Wood <doowttam@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I'm interested contributing, but don't have a project in mind.
> > The
> > > contributing docs mention starting with a message here.
> >
> >
> > May be you should tell us more?
> >
> > How do you use your Emacs and to what ends. Are you a programmer
> > and
> > what languages do you program in? What are your interest areas?
> > What
> > platform do you use - Mac, Linux, Windows etc.
> >
> > The easiest way to contribute is by filing bug reports, responding
> > to
> > and helping others in the MLs, IRC.
> >
> > You can also contribute to any of the bigger packages like Gnus,
> > Org
> > mode, CEDET etc.
> >
> > If you are serious about contributing, why not submit a(ny) patch
> > of say
> > 20+ lines, asssign the copyright to FSF and have it integrated in
> > to
> > Emacs proper or GNU ELPA. See section titled `* Copyright
> > Assignment'
> > in etc/CONTRIBUTE.
> >
> > Whether projects end up in your plate or not, lurking around in
> > the
> > mailing list of Emacs and sister projects can give you good
> > perspective
> > on the goings-on in Emacs world. You can join in when something
> > rings
> > a bell.
> >
> >
> > > Looking through the archives, I found a message that basically
> > said
> > > that there wasn't a well organized list of projects for beginner
> > > contributors. It suggested looking in etc/TODO and etc/NEWS for
> > ideas.
> > >
> > > Is that still the best way to start? Or is there a better way
> > now?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Matt Wood
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
>
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-27 16:57 Contributing Matthew Wood
2013-01-27 17:00 ` Contributing Aurélien Aptel
2013-01-27 17:13 ` Contributing Paul Eggert
2013-01-27 18:12 ` Contributing Jambunathan K
2013-01-27 18:36 ` Contributing Matthew Wood
2013-01-27 19:04 ` Contributing Jambunathan K
2013-01-27 19:57 ` Matthew Wood [this message]
2013-01-27 22:14 ` Contributing Lennart Borgman
2013-01-27 23:56 ` Contributing Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-28 6:40 ` Contributing Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-28 0:52 ` Contributing Xue Fuqiao
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-23 8:13 Contributing Sameer Rahmani
2011-07-23 8:53 ` Contributing Jambunathan K
2011-07-25 20:32 ` Contributing Rett Kent
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