Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 18:08:01 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: CFD: (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:31:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>... >> For more substantial starter projects the best we have (as far as I >> know) is http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects, but that's just a >> teeny subset. >> >> We're not very good at this, I'm afraid. I seem to recall that Rik has >> offered to help out here, so perhaps whenever one notices a >> hey-someone-should-do-this project, it could be forwarded to Rik and he >> can put it up there. >>... > > Let's look at it from another angle: > > We should not aim at being good at this. > > What do we need more in the kernel: > - people testing development kernels > - people fixing bugs > - people maintaining code > - people reviewing code
- encouragement to develop in the mainline rather than out-of-tree
> What do we already have more than enough: > - people developing new bugs^Wfeatures
- companies being content with out-of-tree drivers or even closed source drivers or no drivers at all, and users having to put up with it -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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