Am 19.09.2015 um 14:52 schrieb Alexander Holler:
Am 19.09.2015 um 07:18 schrieb Greg KH:
I have been saying for years that we have a lack of real projects /
tasks / ideas for people who are skilled, yet have no idea what to do.
I know of well over a hundred people I have email addresses of that have
asked me for these types of things, and have patches in the kernel that
are non-trivial to prove that they have the skill to do real things.
It's a real problem, and one that I don't have an answer for. We need
these types of tasks, and I don't have them, and every maintainer I ask
about it also doesn't have them. What we are asking for is people to
somehow come up with tasks on their own, as if they know what needs to
be done.
I've recently posted a proof of concept for wiping files, or in other
words to really delete files, And it was a disaster because if someone
posts imperfect pathhes on this list, people have fun trying to eat you
(because they seem bored or whatever).
Even posting perfect patches is a game, because there exists always a
space, newline or variable name which might be used to start annoying
discussions.
So, there is no reason to wonder about the lack of such tasks.
So even if you don't agree, here as task: wipe files in real. ;)
By the way, in that discussion (about wiping files) I was blamed for
writing bugs in bugzilla without offering a patch, for something they
believe it is a feature (whereas I still believe it is a bug to not
really delete files). That leaded me to the question if there is
somewhere a feature request tracker, for which I've got, of course, no
answer.
So, if there is a lack of real projects / tasks / ideas, maybe it might
make sense to setup such a feature request tracker (or idea pool), maybe
with the possibility to let people up/down vote ideas.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
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