Re: contributing to Emacs

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 20:09 +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > Ideally, each commit in the repository should contain minimal functional
> > changes. It allows for easier code review at the moment and for better
> > figuring
> > out why some change was done later in the life of the project. Usually at
> > this
> > point I refer people to this old article from kernel HID subsystem
> > maintainer
> > and libinput creator
> > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html
> > Old — but gold! 😄
> 
> That's the purpose of ChangeLog, not the VCS.
> 
> > When project contributions are done via mailing list (such as kernel, gdb,
> > gcc,
> > and in the past were also Xorg and Mesa), you usually turn a number of
> > commits
> > to separate patches and send them. E.g. here's one example:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20230612104658.1386996-1-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com/
> > it starts with a "zero patch" that is the title of the series, and then
> > individual patches follow.
> 
> Mesa and Linux are hardly all the world, and that wasn't my experience
> with GDB or GCC development.

I am not sure what you mean. Here's GCC ML with patches for the last month
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2023-May/thread.html You can see they
send series as well. Here's an arbitrary cover letter "zero patch" for a series
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2023-May/618426.html