From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756884AbYE2Nrk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 09:47:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755631AbYE2NrS (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 09:47:18 -0400 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:58090 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756371AbYE2NrR (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 09:47:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:44:20 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: James Bottomley Cc: ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project Message-ID: <20080529134420.GA10849@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1211995212.3445.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1211995212.3445.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:20:12PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: >... > The most obvious solution might be to shut the Janitors project down, or > at least more tightly manage its TODO list (although a lot of what gets > seen as janitorial patches, like whitespace fixes, isn't on the TODO > list in the first place). However, since the purpose is to get new > people involved with kernel development, perhaps we should repurpose the > project so it actually does this. My suggestion is that we replace it > with the kernel bugs project. Kudos for finding bugs, more for finding > better ways of finding bugs, and the most for finding and actually > fixing a bug. > > Perhaps we should simply start the discussion with the premise that we > want to encourage new people to do useful work and draw them into the > development community and see where it leads. My attempt in this direction is described at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/7/258 Although I do not yet know how it will develop it already resulted in some bug reports that might otherwise not have been sent. > James cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed