Re: contributing to Emacs

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 10:00 +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 08:20 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> > > > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, arne_bab@web.de, luangruo@yahoo.com,
> > > > emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:39:17 +0300
> > > > 
> > > > No. I measured specifically for you: "Sending Patches" alone is 5884
> > > > characters
> > > > not counting bullets, and my email was 3491 characters.
> > > 
> > > When someone posts a patch, he or she is not requested to read that
> > > section, let alone pass some kind of exam on being familiar with it.
> > > I'm quite sure 99% of contributors don't even know that section exists
> > > in the manual, and have never read it.  So the size of that node is
> > > utterly irrelevant to how hard it is to contribute to Emacs.
> > 
> > You can't send a patch if you don't know how and where to send it 😊 So you
> > can't avoid reading that section.
> 
> I think `submit-emacs-patch' is supposed to help here. 

You would need to know it exists.

>  But I don't get how this is a Emacs/ML specific issue?

We are discussing possible improvement to Emacs-specific contributing workflow.