Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Phillip Lord]

Michał Nazarewicz <address@hidden> writes:
> 2014-02-17 21:29 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>> What red tape?  Emacs is about the most red-tape-less project as you
>> can find, as far as the procedure of admitting a patch is considered.
>
> I'm a bit late to the party, and haven't yet gone through the whole thread,
> but let me chip in my 2 rappens anyway. ;)
>
> What I found a bit discouraging is lack of responses to my patches. 
> Admittedly,
> after re-reading etc/CONTRIBUTE I discovered I was sending them to the wrong
> place (emacs-devel instead of bug-gnu-emacs) but still it would be nice if
> someone yelled at me for using the wrong mailing list.

Something like the gitorious merge request facilities would help here.
Then you would be able to see that your request had gone in. Mailing
lists are good for some things but maintaining a database is probably
not one of them.

Phil