Re: Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:28:34 +0800
> 
> > 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.

Please look at 'CONTRIBUTE' in the repository, which is intended to be
the official "Welcome, New Emacs Developers" write-up.  If what you
think should be there isn't, please don't hesitate to propose patches.

Thanks.