Re: contributing to Emacs

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 12:47 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > > Increase of userbase may potentially result in new developers and
>    > > maintainers.
>    > 
>    > Our experience with NS and w32 ports indicates this is a false hope.
> 
>    To be fair, Emacs is notoriously hard to contribute to, so to have
>    new devs/maintainers appear requires substantially larger increase
>    of the userbase compared to an increase needed in other
>    projects. Still worth a try though.
> 
> Notoriously hard?  It is one of the easiest projects, you send a patch, one
> of the amazing people who work on Emacs looks over it, and if you have
> your papers in order, it is commited or commented on.  That is not
> very hard.
> 
> Best is to avoid such crazy overblown generalizations...

I see you have 4 patches to Emacs. If you do not mind, can I ask you: what 
other projects did you contribute to, to be able to compare the experience?

(I changed the email title as I feel this is kind of offtopic regarding Android)