From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:15:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <olds52$klk$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wp717e67.fsf@zoho.com>
On 7/21/2017 4:01 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> Just my 2 cents: not necessarily, see all the
>> discussion on emacs-devel about bug#21072.
>
> 50 cent: Don't do it.
>
> Half the time will be wasted with unpleasant
> arguing with other people with huge egos, the
> other half will be wasted trying to understand
> what has been done before you even entered
> the project.
My 2 cents.
Learning how to deal with huge egos and understanding the culture of
open source projects is valuable - certainly not a waste of time for a
new engineer.
I don't know whether it's thesis-worthy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-27 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-21 8:46 I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Mario Krajačić
2017-07-21 16:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 18:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-21 20:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-22 4:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-22 16:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-27 23:15 ` Ken Goldman [this message]
2017-07-27 23:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-28 18:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-28 19:50 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-29 2:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-03 17:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-29 2:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 18:30 ` Kevin Buchs
2017-07-21 19:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 21:16 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-07-21 22:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 22:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-22 20:55 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-07-22 21:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-25 17:39 ` Mario Krajačić
2017-07-25 18:30 ` Emanuel Berg
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2017-07-22 13:33 Richard Melville
2017-07-22 16:25 ` Emanuel Berg
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