Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Hello and a question about missing AUCTeX features

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-04-17, at 23:50, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
>> I have read carefully all the replies to my ramblings, for which I
>> thank all of you who took the time to answer me.  I don't have the
>> time to answer them now, but I promise to come back and do it soon.
>> For now, I'd like to look at the FSF copyright agreement.  What do I
>> do exactly to receive the form from the FSF?
>
> Follow the instructions in this form:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future

Thanks, I'll check it, too.

>> Where can I ask question with regards to my particular situation?
>
> I'd just ask whom to ask when emailing the above form to address@hidden
> Probably, that's the right recipient, and if not he'll know who is.
>
>> I guess that if I want to contribute to AUCTeX, I should write here;
>
> Yes.  We have chosen the name auctex-devel very wisely to make people
> guess that.  And it seems to work. :-)

;-)

>> what if I want to contribute to Emacs in general?
>
> If you want to contribute to Emacs (and/or the packages that ship with
> it or are in GNU ELPA), then write "Emacs" as program when requesting
> the CA forms.  Emacs also covers AUCTeX but the reverse is not true.
>
>> Should I subscribe to emacs-devel and/or write there?  (I'm a tiny bit
>> afraid to subscribe to yet another, very active ML...)
>
> Not necessarily.  You can also contribute to Emacs just by looking at
> its bug reports and submitting patches on the issues.  Or implement an
> entry in etc/TODO or some other new feature and submit the patches as
> bug report.  Then you can keep focus on the task you are trying to
> accomplish without getting 50 mails a day.
>
> However, especially with new features I'd ask on emacs-devel beforehand
> if there's a need for it and how to approach it best.

So bascially this boils down to "subscribe to emacs-devel" anyway.
Well, I'll have to live with it, at least until I configure Gnus...

> Bye,
> Tassilo

Thanks a lot!

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