Re: contributing to Emacs

[Po Lu]

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

> 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.

What's a ``patch series''?

Typically, free software maintainers expect patches to be a single
context format diff, containing either edits to the appropriate
ChangeLog file(s), or with ChangeLog entries prepended.