Re: Work

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:42 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:23:00 -0400, Nick Krause said:
>
>> I having been doing build tests and checkpatch in staging for the last month.
>> It doesn't seem like it's worth my time as so my other people are doing it. I
>> want an interesting project one that is challenging and rewarding :).
>
> OK. I'm gonna be blunt.  That's about as dumb as people who post "What should
> my next blog post be about?", and for exactly the same reasons.
>
> If you aren't *internally* motivated by a specific goal/interest, we're
> not going to be able to help.  Personally, I'm motivated to do testing and
> debugging because I have a quarter acre of Linux boxes across the hall that
> need stable kernels, and more users over on campus.  And every single bug
> I catch in linux-next or Fedora Rawhide and file a *good* bug report on
> is one less bug that one of my users can trip over and file a poor bug
> report about. ;)
>
> Other people are motivated by the fact their employer is paying them
> to write a Foobar 2890 driver.  Some people find filesystems intellectually
> interesting, and others worry far too much about security.  And so on.
>
> But if nothing like that is jumping out at you, maybe you should go look
> around and see if there's something in userspace that *does* jump out at you.

I am interested in file systems and will be working on brtfs and ext4.
Cheers Nick

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