About Low Hanging Fruits
Hi, I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in linux kernel as Low hanging fruits. I have searched in bugzilla but not able to find it. Thanks !! -- *Regards,Mayur S Patil,Looking for R&D or Soft Engg positions,Pune, India.*
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:13:28 +0530, Mayur Patil said:
I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in linux kernel as Low hanging fruits.
The Linux kernel has been worked over by professional programmers for more than a decade, and as a result the number of things that can be attacked by a relatively unskilled newcomer is fairly low. Your best place to start is probably under drivers/staging, where we put all the stuff that's *not* up to standards yet. Each driver should have a TO-DO file describing what needs doing, and Greg HK is always willing to take checkpatch style fixups for the staging tree (many other maintainers *don't* want style patches that aren't connected to other work - if there's other active work, they can introduce merge conflicts, and if nobody's working on something, it's best to not touch stable code...)
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:13:28 +0530, Mayur Patil said:
I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in linux kernel as Low hanging fruits.
The Linux kernel has been worked over by professional programmers for more than a decade, and as a result the number of things that can be attacked by a relatively unskilled newcomer is fairly low.
Your best place to start is probably under drivers/staging, where we put all the stuff that's *not* up to standards yet. Each driver should have a TO-DO file describing what needs doing, and Greg HK is always willing to take checkpatch style fixups for the staging tree (many other maintainers *don't* want style patches that aren't connected to other work - if there's other active work, they can introduce merge conflicts, and if nobody's working on something, it's best to not touch stable code...)
actually, one area of low-hanging fruit is the Documentation/ directory, which could always use some attention. documentation is always getting out of date, so pick a subsystem and clean up the docs.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 ========================================================================
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:11:57 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said:
actually, one area of low-hanging fruit is the Documentation/ directory, which could always use some attention. documentation is always getting out of date, so pick a subsystem and clean up the docs.
Good catch, I'll add it to my standard reply. :)
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