Re: contributing to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
> Cc: ams@gnu.org, hi-angel@yandex.ru, luangruo@yahoo.com, philipk@posteo.net,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:52:43 +0200
> 
> >> In the discussion it became clear (at least to me) that the way to
> >> contribute is not the main complication, but the discoverability of that
> >> way and that the way seems hard when you see more than a sheet of paper
> >> in print as instructions.
> >
> > You are inventing a problem where there is none.
> 
> You said that the w32 port didn’t get many additional devs. I’m trying
> to find reasons — and on the website I see obvious reasons that keep
> people from contributing. And the more I look into it, the more I see
> how broken the new-dev-wants-to-contribute usecase of the website is.

I understand and appreciate what you are trying to do, but those
aren't the reasons for lack of active contributors to Emacs.