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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
