Re: More metaproblem

[Karl Fogel]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> There needs to be place where a developer *who has not yet decided to
>> contribute to Emacs* can land and quickly get an impression of how much
>> work is involved, and what the nature of that work is.
>
>Contributing small patches to Emacs is easy.  You report a bug, include
>the patch, and someone will look at it.
>
>No instructions necessary beyond "git clone
>git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git", really.
>
>(See
>http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/
>for details.)
>
>If, however, you mean complete instructions on how to be an Emacs
>maintainer, that would be a very long document indeed, and I don't think
>it matters one iota whether that's on the web or in ./CONTRIBUTORS.

It's the continuum in between those that I think is ill-served right
now.