The patch titled HOWTO: mention bughunting has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is howto-mention-bughunting.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: HOWTO: mention bughunting From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/HOWTO | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/HOWTO~howto-mention-bughunting Documentation/HOWTO --- a/Documentation/HOWTO~howto-mention-bughunting +++ a/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -374,6 +374,26 @@ of information is needed by the kernel d problem. +Managing bug reports +-------------------- + +One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing +bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel +more stable, you'll learn to fix real world problems and you will improve +your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing +bugs is one of the best ways to earn merit amongst the developers, because +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. + +To work in the already reported bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org. +If you want to be advised of the future bug reports, you can subscribe to the +bugme-new mailing list (only new bug reports are mailed here) or to the +bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) + + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors + + + Mailing lists ------------- _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from diegocg@xxxxxxxxx are git-dvb.patch mm-thrash-detect-process-thrashing-against-itself.patch howto-mention-bughunting.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html