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Contributing to Emacs
Emacs is a collaborative project and one which wants to encourage new
development. You may wish to fix Emacs bugs, improve testing, port
Emacs to a new platform, update documentation, add new Emacs features,
and the like. To help with this, there is a lot of documentation
available. In addition to the user guide and Lisp Reference Manual in
the Emacs distribution, the Emacs web pages also contain much
information.
Emacs is a collaborative project and we encourage contributions from
anyone and everyone. If you want to contribute in the way that will
help us most, we recommend (1) fixing reported bugs and (2)
implementing the feature ideas in etc/TODO. However, if you think of
new features to add, please suggest them too -- we might like your
idea. Porting to new platforms is also useful, when there is a new
platform, but that is not common nowadays.
For documentation on how to develop Emacs changes, refer to the Emacs
Manual and the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual (both included in the Emacs
distribution). The web pages in http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
contain additional information.
You may also want to submit your change so that can be considered for
inclusion in a future version of Emacs (see below).
If you don't feel up to hacking Emacs, there are still plenty of ways to
help! You can answer questions on the mailing lists, write
documentation, find bugs, create a Emacs related website (contribute to
the official Emacs web site), or create a Emacs related software
package. We welcome all of the above and feel free to ask on the Emacs
mailing lists if you are looking for feedback or for people to review a
work in progress.
If you don't feel up to hacking Emacs, there are many other ways to
help. You can answer questions on the mailing lists, write
documentation, find and report bugs, contribute to the Emacs web
pages, or develop a package that works with Emacs.
Ref: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Finally, there are certain legal requirements and style issues which
all contributors need to be aware of:
Here are some style and legal conventions for contributors to Emacs:
o Coding Standards
All contributions must conform to the GNU Coding Standard.
Submissions which do not conform to the standards will be
returned with a request to reformat the changes.
Contributed code should follow the GNU Coding Standard.
If it doesn't, we'll need to find someone to fix the code
before we can use it.
Emacs has certain additional coding requirements.
Emacs has certain additional style and coding conventions.
Ref: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html
Ref: Standards Info Manual
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o Copyright Assignment
Before we can accept code contributions from you, we need a
copyright assignment form filled out and filed with the FSF.
We can accept small changes without legal papers, and for
medium-size changes a copyright disclaimer is ok too. Toa
accept substantial contributions from you, we need a copyright
assignment form filled out and filed with the FSF.
Contact us via the Emacs mailing list to obtain the relevant
Contact us at emacs-devel@gnu.org to obtain the relevant
forms.
Small changes can be accepted without a copyright assignment
form on file.
o Getting the Source Code
The latest version of Emacs can be downloaded using CVS or Arch
from the Savannah web site. It is important that you submit
your patch using this version, as any bug in a released version
of Emacs may already be fixed. It also makes it easier for
others to test your patch.
The latest version of Emacs can be downloaded using CVS or
Arch from the Savannah web site. It is important to write
your patch based this version; if you start from an older
version, your patch may be outdated when you write it.
Ref: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
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list.
o Please read your patch before submitting it.
o Please reread your patch before submitting it.
A patch containing several unrelated changes reformats will be
returned with a request to send them separately.
o If you send several unrelated changes together, we will
ask you to separate them so we can consider each of the changes
by itself.
o Supplemental information for Emacs Developers:
If you wish to contribute to Emacs on a regular basis then you
may be given write access to the CVS repository.
Once you become a frequent contributor to Emacs, we can
consider giving you write access to the CVS repository.
Discussion about Emacs development takes place on
emacs-devel@gnu.org.
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but the nodes "Tips" and "GNU Emacs Internals" in the Appendix
of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual may also help.
The file DEBUG describes how to debug Emacs.
The file DEBUG describes how to debug Emacs bugs.
Avoid using `defadvice' or `eval-after-load' for lisp
Avoid using `defadvice' or `eval-after-load' for Lisp
code to be included in Emacs.