https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61601 --- Comment #14 from Jacob Lane <jaclane299@xxxxxxxxx> --- damn, i see now. im definitely gonna go after that challenge. thanks On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:24 AM, <bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61601 > > --- Comment #13 from Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- > Jacob, there are very good programs to help people learn how to get > involved > with kernel development. See the kernelnewbies.org web site and mailing > list, > for example. But you need to have some amount of basic competence; being > able > to use Google well, for example, and doing silly things like making sure > the > patches compile before you submit patches for review. > > Also, if you have clueless people asking users completely random questions > that > are completely useless in terms of fixing the problem, it wastes the user's > time and causes them to get very frustrated. So having newbies trying to > help > users who are reporting kernel bugs is not a good idea. If they want to > help > users install Linux distributions, that's fine --- so long as you are > minimally > competent in doing installation. Similarly, if you are completely > incompetent > in doing kernel development, you should not be offering to help users. > > There are ways for newbies to get involved. The problem is Nick has > consistently ignored advice of people who have wasted a huge amount of time > trying to get him on the right path. Which is why he has gotten banned. > > If you are someone who wants to get started, there is the Eudyptula > Challenge > (http://eudyptula-challenge.org). Nick finally got involved with this, > and > then violated the very simple rules, which caused him to get ejected from > the > Challenge within hours, thus setting a new record for the Eudyuptula > Challenge. > Anyway, this is off topic for the bug. So please stop discussing this > here, > please. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are watching the assignee of the bug. > -- > 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 > -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
