Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 16:44:20 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project |
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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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