Re: contributing to Emacs

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 22:11 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

I think it cumulative of many factors, and fixing every small factor that comes
into play increases probability of getting a new contributor.