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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:23:30 +0300
> 
> having a list of function names with description for each does not
> make one. Instead it should be an overview of what is done, why, and how.

It should be both, actually.

> Suppose you have a patch that deduplicates the same code pattern across 34
> functions by factoring it out to a single short function. Do you really need
> that list?

No, and no one will ever ask you to describe such mechanistic changes
one by one.

It's all in the GNU Coding Standards, btw.  I suggest to read that.