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SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:06:15PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> All I want to say is that I could very well imagine that a lot of
>> newcomers will find "hey, feel free to crawl through bugzilla and fix
>> whatever you are able to fix" very non-attractive.
>
> Of course. We have to make it sexier than that.

A newcomer is motivated to fix a non-trivial bug if his own setup is
seriously affected, no convenient workaround is possible, and it is
clear that nobody else is gong to fix the bug (e.g. because the code is
orphaned).

If you have funds, you may have ways to provide better motivators than this.
--
Stefan Richter
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