Re: Emacs development

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

Done!