On Fri, Feb 15 2013, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Michal Sojka wrote: >> Hello, >> >> we are running a university course [1] (in Czech) about working with >> open source communities. We try to help students with finding tasks and >> projects to work on. Do you have a web site listing the possible tasks >> for students? >> >> It used to be http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/ but it seems to be dead. >> Other pages http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo, >> https://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/wiki/TODO seem to be outdated. > > Most of these still apply. > > There is always stuff to fix in staging. The thing about staging > though is that fixing style issues are fairly boring for students. > Also kernel style guidelines are very involved and we tend to be > stricter about pure style fixes than we are about bug fixes. > [...] > You could try asking for ideas on lkml. We're always interested in > ideas as well. Describe how long you'd want a typical project to > take. Thanks Dan. The type and length of the project depends on the capabilities of the students and this varies widely. The time frame for the project is two months. In general we are happy for every small patch the students are able to push upstream. I think your answer is sufficient at this point. If a student is interested, he can follow your suggestions himself. Best regards, -Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
