Re: contributing to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
> Cc: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>,  arne_bab@web.de,
>   ams@gnu.org,  luangruo@yahoo.com,  philipk@posteo.net,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:07:07 -0700
> 
> Would you say that Emacs still has development practices from the
> 80s/90s that, given the chance and newer toolsets, you could see being
> done differently and better?

What are "development practices from the 80s/90s"?

> It's okay to say that what Emacs has now is working well for the current
> developers, but is difficult for on-boarding new developers that want to
> start out simple before graduating into Emacs internals.

Practical suggestions for changes that would make it easier are
welcome, but they must not make the lives of the current developers
significantly harder.