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From the Kernel Janitors website ([http://www.kerneljanitors.org]): «We go through the linux kernel sources, doing code reviews, fixing up unmaintained code and doing other cleanups and API conversion. It is a good start to kernel hacking.» |
From the [http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org Kernel Janitors website] : «We go through the linux kernel sources, doing code reviews, fixing up unmaintained code and doing other cleanups and API conversion. It is a good start to kernel hacking.» |
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"The Kernel Janitors Project" is a good point to start for newbie kernel hackers. The project maintains a TODO list ([http://www.kerneljanitors.org/TODO]) from which contributors can pick a job which fits their skills. The tasks are mainly code cleanups so one can dive into kernel code without knowing all the technical details already. It's also a good point to learn about how to (or how not to) submit patches to the kernel. | If the site is down, there's a local copy of all the content at: [http://kernelnewbies.org/MigratingInProgress] |
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The project keeps its own mailing list ([https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors]) and the maintainer (Alexey Dobriyan at the moment) also irregulary produces a patchset which can be found on [http://coderock.org/kj/]. | "The Kernel Janitors Project" is a good point to start for newbie kernel hackers. The project maintains a [http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo TODO list] from which contributors can pick a job which fits their skills. The tasks are mainly code cleanups so one can dive into kernel code without knowing all the technical details already. It's also a good point to learn about how to (or how not to) submit patches to the kernel. The project keeps its own mailing list (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors) and the maintainer (Alexey Dobriyan at the moment) also irregularly produces a patchset which can be found on http://coderock.org/kj/. ---- == UPDATES: == There's a newer Kernel Janitors page at [http://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/], but it seems that some of the content from above hasn't been moved over, so you should look at both sites. There's an article, [http://lwn.net/Articles/298854/ Fixing the Kernel Janitors Project], with criticisms and suggestions about the project. Some suggestions to kernel newbies: * don't focus so much on fixing whitespace problems * avoid fixing compiler warnings because the goal is to fix the CAUSE of the warnings (which is usually not obvious), not just to make the warnings go away * test the kernel on a wide variety of hardware and submit good bug reports * acquire an obscure (i.e., not yet supported) piece of hardware and write a driver for it (might require some mentoring though) ---- == UPDATES 26 Nov 15: == The [http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors Kernel Janitors Mailing list] seems pretty active. Still looking for a website. |
From the [http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org Kernel Janitors website] : «We go through the linux kernel sources, doing code reviews, fixing up unmaintained code and doing other cleanups and API conversion. It is a good start to kernel hacking.»
If the site is down, there's a local copy of all the content at: [http://kernelnewbies.org/MigratingInProgress]
"The Kernel Janitors Project" is a good point to start for newbie kernel hackers. The project maintains a [http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo TODO list] from which contributors can pick a job which fits their skills. The tasks are mainly code cleanups so one can dive into kernel code without knowing all the technical details already. It's also a good point to learn about how to (or how not to) submit patches to the kernel.
The project keeps its own mailing list (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors) and the maintainer (Alexey Dobriyan at the moment) also irregularly produces a patchset which can be found on http://coderock.org/kj/.
UPDATES:
There's a newer Kernel Janitors page at [http://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/], but it seems that some of the content from above hasn't been moved over, so you should look at both sites.
There's an article, [http://lwn.net/Articles/298854/ Fixing the Kernel Janitors Project], with criticisms and suggestions about the project. Some suggestions to kernel newbies:
- don't focus so much on fixing whitespace problems
- avoid fixing compiler warnings because the goal is to fix the CAUSE of the warnings (which is usually not obvious), not just to make the warnings go away
- test the kernel on a wide variety of hardware and submit good bug reports
- acquire an obscure (i.e., not yet supported) piece of hardware and write a driver for it (might require some mentoring though)
UPDATES 26 Nov 15:
The [http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors Kernel Janitors Mailing list] seems pretty active. Still looking for a website.