Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Let's use WebKit an an example: to report a bug, you have to decide
  > which component to report a bug to first (or what "New Bugs" is for),
  > which means you have to read their Bug Writing Guidelines and their
  > "writing a good bug report" guidelines.

We could do this -- it would take some work.  What I am not sure of
is whether it would be an improvement.  It would be useful to
get people to read our own bug reporting guidelines, but it would
discourage some people.  Which effect is bigger?  It would be hard
to predict or even to measure.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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