Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 12:33:55 -0700 | | From | Randy Dunlap <> | | Subject | Re: CFD: (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) |
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:57:25 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> [Andrew Morton - Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46:44AM -0700] > | On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > | > | > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > | > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > | > > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank > | > > > you so much. > | > > > > | > > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed > | > > > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement. > | > > > | > > But I'd like to second the opinion. This is getting a little too far. > | > > We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of > | > > the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact > | > > placement of whitespaces. > | > > | > The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace > | > and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful > | > patches. If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them. > | > > | > | Guys, get a clue. It doesn't matter what that person did. It is the > | effect upon *all* other potential developers which is so damaging here. > | Not upon this individual. > | > > Btw, we have CodingStyle, SubmittingPatches and other, but why don't > we have something like KernelNewbieGuide? Don't get me wrong, but > there could be written all rules about - what is good to do, what is bad. > So a newbiew who wants to be usefull for kernel could read it and decide > what should be done. /Don't beat me ;) / And of course I know about > kernelnewbie.org but this (even quite short) document could help I think.
I did a talk on Linux "social engineering" at {OSCON, IEEE NW something, and SCALE}. All about what (not) to do, how to do it, etc. Slides for it are available in http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/ .
--- ~Randy
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