Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 13.06.2020 14:59, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> no other projects require
> writing down a list of functions I changed just for the fun of it

As a reviewer, there's something to be said about having an overview of 
the whole diff (which can get long) in a few paragraphs on top of the 
patch. A good commit message like that actually makes a lot of things 
clear in advance.

But yes, that also compensates for otherwise more difficult review 
process, compared to some automated tools other projects use.

> Okay, you want this — but could you at least automate it!
> And no, some Emacs function does not cut it, people not necessarily use
> git from Emacs. I
> personally don't. Please, use git hoooks, because this is what everyone
> is*forced*  to use, you can't possibly miss a git hook.

Someday(tm) we'll migrate to Gitlab, or Gogs, or whatever, and we'll 
have that.

Regarding hooks, we do use them to an extent, but nobody has written a 
checker for commit messages for them yet. And that still wouldn't cover 
people who make patches against released/packaged versions of Emacs, as 
opposed to the Git tree.

The rest of your email, I pretty much agree with. Except, you know, it's 
still quite possible to contribute (pointing to self).