Re: contributing to Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:

> On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 08:20 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
>> > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, arne_bab@web.de, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:39:17 +0300
>> > 
>> > No. I measured specifically for you: "Sending Patches" alone is 5884
>> > characters
>> > not counting bullets, and my email was 3491 characters.
>> 
>> When someone posts a patch, he or she is not requested to read that
>> section, let alone pass some kind of exam on being familiar with it.
>> I'm quite sure 99% of contributors don't even know that section exists
>> in the manual, and have never read it.  So the size of that node is
>> utterly irrelevant to how hard it is to contribute to Emacs.
>
> You can't send a patch if you don't know how and where to send it 😊 So you
> can't avoid reading that section.

I think `submit-emacs-patch' is supposed to help here.  But I don't get
how this is a Emacs/ML specific issue?

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Philip Kaludercic