Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:59:21 +0300
> 
>    Okay, so usually email-based projects recommend using git-send-
> email. Recently I sent a patch like this¹ and got a complaint it
> doesn't look like what git-format-patch would produce (is that maybe a
> hint maintainers are being strained too?). Huh, wrong way again?

FTR: that wasn't a complaint, it was a gentle request for the future.
Your patch was committed, before I sent that request, even though
committing it required some extra manual work on my part.

We recommend using git-format-patch because it makes applying the
patch easier and less error prone.  It never occurred to me that a
routine recommendation would be interpreted as a "complaint", let
alone trigger a 950-word rant.