Thank you very much, Julia! On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Wang Zhe wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am new to linux kernel project and came through the kernelnewbies >> webpage saying kernel janitor project is a good way to get me started >> contributing to kernel. But I am not quite sure how to get started >> with the janitor project. I read through the TODO list >> (http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo) but the items there >> sounds very general to me. Is there any sort of list that looks like >> the issue list of most Github project (i.e. has specified which file >> should I look for, instead of more general TODO description)? >> >> In general, any suggestion on how to get me started contributing to >> this project will be really appreciated. >> >> (This is the first time I send email to the mailing list and I >> apologize if it's not appropriate ask this kind of question on the >> mailing list.) > > Actually, this question is asked often. You may want to look through the > archives to see what we told the last person :) > > Some suggestions are: > 1) There are some bug finding tools in the Linux kernel scripts directory. > Figure out how to use them, and fix the bugs that they identify. > 2) Look into the code in drivers/staging. There are probably a lot of > easy cleanups there. > 3) Look through the git logs to see what other people have done recently. > In general, a problem never occurs only once, so changes made in one place > are probably needed in other places as well. > > And in the interest of self-promotion, you may want to look at > http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ > > Also be sure to read the documentation on submitting patches and do > everything it says. You are still likely to make mistakes, so be ready > for some corrections. > > julia -- 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
