On the topic of new developers, does anybody know how long the copyright
assignment process is supposed to take? I signed the copyright assignment
papers three weeks ago, and I have a couple patches
sitting in debbugs that are waiting for my copyright assignment to be fully
processed. And it took me a week to receive the copyright assignment form
after I sent my application, which means that I've waited an entire month
for my patch to be accepted into Emacs.

I know encouraging new developers has been a popular topic on the list for
the past couple months. But we probably shouldn't get ahead of ourselves if
it takes weeks for a new contributor to get anything merged in :)

Best,
Samer

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:59:09 +0100
> > From: Oleh Krehel <o.krehel@tue.nl>
> >
> > I like Emacs a lot and I'd like to contribute to the development.  I
> > have assigned the FSF Copyright and made some small contributions in
> > the past, but so far my contributions have been moving slower than
> > molasses.
>
> Thanks for your contributions, and sorry for being so slow in reacting
> on them.
>
> > A few questions/ possible answers follow on why this is:
> >
> > 1. My patches / bug reports are lame. Then I'd appreciate at least
> > some feedback pointing out the faults. I learn quickly.
> >
> > 2. I'm submitting to the wrong place, e.g. to the bug tracker instead
> > of the devel list or vice versa. I'd like to know the proper and
> > approved way to do this.
> >
> > 3. My patches / bug reports are low priority and are not worth
> > applying / responding to. Then please let me know the priority areas
> > in which contributions are more actively accepted.
> >
> > 4. The devs are swamped with bug reports and I should just wait a few
> > months more until my turn.
>
> I wouldn't say "swamped", but definitely busy.  So:
>
> 5. Please ping after a week that you didn't see any replies for your
> report, and keep pinging until things move.
>
> > I could then help with the review of other people's one-liners.
>
> Please do, and thanks in advance.
>
>