On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since I'm planning to start contributing to Emacs, and I don't want to
> break something, I'd like to learn which branches are exactly for what
> and what should I do (assuming I will get write access at some point) -
> for instance, should I create small branches for my patches?  Should
> they be branched from master?
>
>
I think right now almost all new features and bug fixed are using branch
emacs-25, AFAIK once  emacs-25 is considered stable enough it is merged
with
master branch.



> Is there any document explaining this things?  If not, I'd be happy to
> write one (once I know that myself).
>
> Best,
>

some time ago Nicolas Petton send a url for a new website for emacs
may be he added some info about this. Meanwhile I suggest you to take a
look
at the mailing list archive to see how it went for others.

http://nicolas-petton.fr/ressources/emacs-website/

I myself struggled with this same situation where there is not an easy
intro for
new developers.



>
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> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>
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