Re: Questions about developing Emacs

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> - Will replies to older bugs (say, 1 or 2 years old) still get noticed
> by the maintainers?

All emails about bug reports get sent to the mailing-list
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, so yes it will be seen by those who subscribe to
this list. You can also explicitly add a `Cc:` if you want input from
someone in particular (e.g. I don't subscribe to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
any more, so if you want my input on a particular bug, make sure I'm in
the `Cc:`).

> - What's the best way of moving from fixing small things, onto
> adding/modifying larger parts of how Emacs works? I imagine that this
> greatly depends on the amount of time spent working on the project.

Beside Eli's answer, you might also get ideas from discussions (where
members of emacs-devel may be able to help you move from a local
problem to a more far-reaching solution).


        Stefan