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Re: contributing to Emacs


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: contributing to Emacs
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:02:28 +0300

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>, eliz@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, 
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:56:33 +0300
> 
> Okay, so, here's an obvious one: a patch series sent to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> should not create separate bugreports for every patch.
> 
> In ML-managed projects it is typical to send patches as a series, and when you
> doing that results in such surprising behaviour, it creates an additional
> emotional and mental load both for you and for maintainers who would need to 
> do
> something with these separate reports.

Our preference is to send patches as a single patch, not as patch
series.

That said, people are sometimes sending series, and we don't ask them
to resend, we process those series anyway.

As for separate bug reports, this is easily fixed by merging them.

So I see no problem here.



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