On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29:49PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> Sorry about my other issues Ted. But if you would like to give >> me a change, I would like to help out on ext4 development. >> Just tell me what I should read before I start helping out:). > > So here's my concern. The patches and questions which you've sent to > LKML seem to indicate either that (a) you are incredibly sloppy, (b) > you're technically not very capable, or (c) you were so enthusiastic > to Make A Difference that you were sending out patches and asking > questions without spending any time to think, test, and spending time > doing research. > > Whichever it is, the worry to me is that you will consume far more of > my time and other developers than the actual effort you will actually > end up contributing. So the "help" ends up sucking away precious > developer time and bandwidth. > > If you can send pointers to actual technical work you've done that > might pursuade folks that you can actually contribute in a positive > fashion, that might be helpful. > > Regards, > > - Ted Ted, I was being sloppy. I screwed up if you want my help still, please let me known. Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
