Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 16:35:15 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: I am a volunteer |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:23:22PM +0200, Davi Leal wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > The easiest and very valuable task is testing the kernel as described at >> > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelTesters >> >> I am more motivated to do development than testing. > > And who do you think will test your dev then ? > > Testing very quickly involves development because you will notice bugs > first, then missing chunks of code to handle special conditions, and by > this time you will feel much better with kernel internals and will have > no problem starting on more complex tasks. [...]
I second what Adrian and Willy wrote, because that's basically how I became involved. A driver subsystem which I wanted to use didn't work quite 100%, so I always checked out the newest sources of the subsystem development repo and reported open issues or regressions. When (a) developers vanished and (b) I became more confident I started to submit patches myself.
Another conclusion from that is that you should pick an area which genuinely interests you, i.e. a driver or protocol or whatever which you actually use yourself frequently. That's a lot more motivating than to pick a project from a todo-list at random. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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