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SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:20:12PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>...
> The most obvious solution might be to shut the Janitors project down, or
> at least more tightly manage its TODO list (although a lot of what gets
> seen as janitorial patches, like whitespace fixes, isn't on the TODO
> list in the first place). However, since the purpose is to get new
> people involved with kernel development, perhaps we should repurpose the
> project so it actually does this. My suggestion is that we replace it
> with the kernel bugs project. Kudos for finding bugs, more for finding
> better ways of finding bugs, and the most for finding and actually
> fixing a bug.
>
> Perhaps we should simply start the discussion with the premise that we
> want to encourage new people to do useful work and draw them into the
> development community and see where it leads.

My attempt in this direction is described at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/7/258

Although I do not yet know how it will develop it already resulted in
some bug reports that might otherwise not have been sent.

> James

cu
Adrian

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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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