Re: More metaproblem

[Przemysław Wojnowski]

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W dniu 09.12.2014 o 17:54, Eli Zaretskii pisze:
>> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:23:10 +0100 From: Przemysław Wojnowski
>> <address@hidden>
>> 
>> 1. How to build a project from source 
>> (http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/ is
>> a good start).
> 
> Is it different from INSTALL.REPO in the Emacs tree?
A bit. The blog has also good hints on installing deps:
sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24

>> 2. How to run (automated) tests - IMHO a must if a project want to be 
>> perceived as modern by young developers. Without automated tests young
>> devs will think that project stuck in 80's. Moreover, automated tests
>> enable refactoring, which is standard now. Writing tests is very good
>> starting point for new devs, because one can learn about the system and
>> make it more resistant to unintended changes at the same time.
> 
> Did you look in tests/ ?
Yes. It contains automated tests for elisp and IMHO instructions for new devs
should tell how to work with it.
What about tests for C code? IMHO even one test would be helpful, just to show
which test library should be used and how to run those tests.
AFAIK writing tests is standard way to join a project and gain knowledge about 
it.

>> 4. GH has fantastic pull requests that make contribution easier to do and
>> less public, which is encouraging. Here, sending patches to the list, is 
>> technically harder (less of a problem) and discouraging (send a patch
>> and watch 100 emails humiliating you :-) ).
> 
> When did you see 100 humiliating emails in response to a patch?  I think
> you have some other project/forum in mind.
It was just a metaphorical expression. I meant that it's discouraging to send
a patch seeing people fighting in other threads. Maybe for patches it's a bit
different - sorry, don't have time reading all emails on the list. :-|

Thanks for response,
Przemyslaw
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