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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.
You may also want to submit your change so that can be considered for
conclusion 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.
Ref: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Finally, there are certain legal requirements and style issues which
all contributors need to be aware of.
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.
Emacs has certain additional coding requirements.
Ref: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html
o Copyright Assignment
Before we can accept code contributions from you, we need a
copyright assignment form filled out and filed with the FSF.
See some documentation by the FSF for details and contact us
via the Emacs mailing list to obtain the relevant
forms.
Small changes can be accepted without a copyright assignment
form on file.
Ref: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain.html#SEC6
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,
Ref: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
o Submitting Patches
Every patch must have several pieces of information before we
can properly evaluate it.
For bug fixes, a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
this bug.
For new features, a description of the feature and your
implementation.
A ChangeLog entry as plaintext (separate from the patch); see
the various ChangeLog files for format and content. Note that,
unlike some other projects, we do require ChangeLogs also for
documentation (i.e., .texi files).
The patch itself. If you are accessing the CVS repository use
"cvs update; cvs diff -cp"; else, use "diff -cp OLD NEW" or
"diff -up OLD NEW". If your version of diff does not support
these options, then get the latest version of GNU diff.
We accept patches as plain text (preferred for the compilers
themselves), MIME attachments (preferred for the web pages),
or as uuencoded gzipped text.
When you have all these pieces, bundle them up in a mail message
and send it to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org or emacs-devel@gnu.org.
All patches and related discussion should be sent to the
emacs-pretest-bug mailinglist.
o Please read your patch before submitting it.
A patch containing several unrelated changes or
arbitrary reformats will be returned with a request
to re-formatting / split it.
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.
Discussion about Emacs development takes place on
emacs-devel@gnu.org.
Think carefully about whether your change requires updating the
documentation. If it does, you can either do this yourself or
add an item to the NEWS file.
The best way to understand Emacs Internals is to read the code
but there is also a node "GNU Emacs Internals" in the Appendix
of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual that may help.
The file DEBUG describes how to debug Emacs.
Avoid using `defadvice' or `eval-after-load' for lisp
code to be included in Emacs.