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Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)

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To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...>
Cc: <tytso@...>, <hch@...>, <viro@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <davem@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 3:31 pm

On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:57:25 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:


There are a lot of people out there who would like to try their hands
at kernel.org development but who just aren't sure how to start, nor
where to start.

One could understand a developer deciding to write a do-nothing
whitespace patch as a general throat-clearing exercise, but when asked,
I recommend against that.  I generally recommend that people just
download and test the latest -rc, linux-next and -mm kernels and build
and run them.  Because they surely will find things which need fixing. 
Often simple little things like compilation errors, sometimes things
which need a bisection search.

For more substantial starter projects the best we have (as far as I
know) is http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects, but that's just a
teeny subset.

We're not very good at this, I'm afraid.  I seem to recall that Rik has
offered to help out here, so perhaps whenever one notices a
hey-someone-should-do-this project, it could be forwarded to Rik and he
can put it up there.

The #1 project for all kernel beginners should surely be "make sure
that the kernel runs perfectly at all times on all machines which you
can lay your hands on".  Usually the way to do this is to work with
others on getting things fixed up (this can require persistence!) but
that's fine - it's a part of kernel development.

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[PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments, Jianjun Kong, (Wed May 21, 1:58 am)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard..., Christoph Hellwig, (Wed May 21, 6:32 am)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, David Miller, (Wed May 21, 3:49 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro, (Wed May 21, 6:03 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard..., Arjan van de Ven, (Thu May 22, 11:29 am)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard..., Andrew Morton, (Wed May 21, 3:31 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, David Miller, (Wed May 21, 4:10 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau, (Wed May 21, 5:25 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Richter, (Wed May 21, 5:44 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau, (Wed May 21, 5:56 pm)
Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org, David Miller, (Wed May 21, 5:19 am)
Re: [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments, Jiri Slaby, (Wed May 21, 3:19 am)
Re: [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments, David Newall, (Wed May 21, 7:35 am)
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