On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > Hello, Ashijeet > > > I am kernel newbie and I was looking for something to work upon to > > improve my skill-set. I have good knowledge of C and experience in > > writing patches. Also please refer me if there is a to-do list for > > newbies related to pending tasks for linux kernel. > > I'm newbie here as well. Still I have an experience of working on some > other open source projects. I believe the idea is always the same. > > First, take a look on project's issue tracker: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ > > Also you could probably review an existing code and propose refactoring > or optimization patches. Static code analyzers is always a good start > point. Try looking for typos in comments - you will be surprised how > many mistakes are there. Usually people like to write code but don't > like to document and/or test it. Join testing and reviewing new > patches, try to improve them. > > I hope this will help. i've mentioned this before ... if you want a safe project that will still teach you a whole lot about the kernel, improve all the documentation under the Documentation/ directory. there's a *ton* of stuff there that is either in need of improving or, in some cases, deletion because it's so old. or if you're feeling really ambitious, write some *new* documentation for some subsystem for which there is none. and, finally, you can't screw things up by changing the docs. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
