Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > 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.

What I was trying to say is that with emacsbug and friends, reporting a
bug with Emacs is much easier for new users than most projects running
Bugzilla, such as WebKit.

Thanks.