Re: Emacs development

[Eric Abrahamsen]

address@hidden (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Alexis writes:
>
>> On 2015-02-21T13:36:20+1100, Sam Auciello said:
>
>> SA> Hello, I am a long time user and appreciator of emacs and I am SA>
>> SA> interested in contributing to it. [...]
>
>> The bug tracker is here:
>>
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote a quick guide, "Welcome, New Emacs Developers",
> after the Emacs code repository was converted to git, which might also
> be of interest:
>
>  * http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/

That's a good start, and you've got to draw a line someplace, but I
think a nice addition to the above would be: "what Emacs versions are
new contributions supposed to be compatible with," and "how to
compile/test your contributions."

I've embarrassed myself a few times recently, writing things that Worked
For Me, and not realizing that that wasn't enough.

Eric