Re: publicizing Emacs contribute

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>   > Contributing small patches to Emacs is easy.  You report a bug, include
>   > the patch, and someone will look at it.
>
> Perhaps we should present this information prominently in places
> people will see it.

I think we all agree on that. The problem is to figure out what
"prominent places" are appropriate.

Currently, if you do a Google search for "Emacs contribute", you find:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Contributing.html

    The relevant section of the Emacs manual
    
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/CONTRIBUTE

    The official file

(I assume these are from the last release; they are not the current git
 working copy.)

(Is there a Free Software web search engine on the web? I feel a little
 guilty using Google for this.)

What other "prominent places" would you suggest?


Getting an article in some developer magazines would be very good, I
think; people on the Ada newsgroup get very excited when an article in a
developer magazine mentions Ada. I don't read any, so I don't know if
there have been any Emacs related articles recently.

Anybody up for writing "Emacs vs Microsoft Visual <language du jour>"? :).

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