From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756859AbYEZOhE (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 10:37:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753875AbYEZOgz (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 10:36:55 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:49866 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755456AbYEZOgy (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 10:36:54 -0400 Message-ID: <483ACAA3.1070705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:35:15 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Davi Leal , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I am a volunteer References: <200805251812.41552.davi@leals.com> <20080525163758.GA1791@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <200805252023.22510.davi@leals.com> <20080525194721.GH6749@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20080525194721.GH6749@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:23:22PM +0200, Davi Leal wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > The easiest and very valuable task is testing the kernel as described at >> > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelTesters >> >> I am more motivated to do development than testing. > > And who do you think will test your dev then ? > > Testing very quickly involves development because you will notice bugs > first, then missing chunks of code to handle special conditions, and by > this time you will feel much better with kernel internals and will have > no problem starting on more complex tasks. [...] I second what Adrian and Willy wrote, because that's basically how I became involved. A driver subsystem which I wanted to use didn't work quite 100%, so I always checked out the newest sources of the subsystem development repo and reported open issues or regressions. When (a) developers vanished and (b) I became more confident I started to submit patches myself. Another conclusion from that is that you should pick an area which genuinely interests you, i.e. a driver or protocol or whatever which you actually use yourself frequently. That's a lot more motivating than to pick a project from a todo-list at random. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/